I also believe I have supported, with my investment, the team whose mission it is -I was led to believe- to work for ME, FOR US, in NXT or whatever else they decide to call future evolution of the project. That was the AGREEMENT. It definitely was not that I would subsidize or otherwise support their private endeavors. You get me?
Well, I don't get you. Do you actually think you bought the NXT dev team when you bought the tokens?
You can go and fund their team, and then maybe you can have influence on what they do. Notice that nobody forces you to buy their ICO - and nobody forces you to care about IGNIS. Or better, go program stuff yourself - I'm sure contributors are needed.
It's generally tough to organize in crypto - there is no simple solution how things should work. Because decentralization is tough. But devs need money to survive if they are supposed to put time and effort into the project... same for the marketing team. All of which is necessary. The NXT team did a fantastic job with the very limited resources they had so far - keeping going through the lowest low. So I have good hopes that they'll do well with proper funding.
The weirdest part is how you repeat "ONE BILLION COINS". The number doesn't matter - they could have just moved the decimal three steps - would you then say "ah, it's fine, only one million coins"? It's the exact same thing. It's the valuation that matters.
And at the most you can complain that you get all these coins for free, although you don't have use for it. But else... all these plans have been in the open since the Ardor idea started.