I agree with you that sometimes the master nodes seem to vote out of inertia and not thinking about the project or the long-term benefits.
Taylor for me, as CEO of DCG has had enough time to carry out a great project. It has had funds to hire dozens of developers, serious media, and much more.
On the contrary, he has focused on losing people's interest in a large project that is increasingly difficult to finance because its capitalization is falling in the table compared to other projects, even jokingly that capitalize twice or more than Dash.
On the other hand, you say that mining should receive more ... it is possible, but if in the future the Dash network requires that the master nodes provide more robust and expensive hardware, they will have to do so, if they need a connection to the faster network, they will have to do it, if they need more storage memory, they will have to do it ... this means that the master nodes, in the long term will have a more expensive maintenance, while mining is seeing the difficulty decrease day by day. day, making new miners more profitable.