There is talk about this since May when the idea was to move to 45/45/10 and also to implement v0.12 Dash which supports the budgeting system. But then there was a change and team has stopped working on v0.12 until they resolve all the bugs of current v0.9. Last we heard from roli on slack that temporary solution might be to move to 35/65 nodes/miners. Completely agree with you that budgeting/voting system and especially dev fund is the most important update team can make. That money can then be used to further develop the coin and pay for services like for example processors like coinpayments.net . Which charges $7000 to get new coin listed but would give CHC a real life use in all online shops that have coinpayments. We can't expect roli to pay for everything from his pocket.
CryptoNinjaPanda, do you know whether there exists an infrastructure like the BIP protocol for CHC, someplace where we can write proposals to improve things? If not, we should get that set up as well, some way to more formalize these changes.
I had no idea that there were so many developers, and my apologies to Roli (lead), I was under the impression that brakmic was essentially the sole developer. This is a symptom of the problem you indicated, namely no list of developers. That would be such an easy thing to do to bolster confidence.
But given there has already been talk of implementing DASH-style budgeting, and there is a sense that this isn't an idea perceived as way out in left field, I'm going to quietly start accumulating more CHC, because if any of this comes together, combined with continuing increases in masternode lock-in percentage, I don't want to look back on this as a missed opportunity: a community-driven coin for people that would rather HODL than scam one another.