An auction for more development funds and marketing funds smells like greed. Greed for a larger profit than the profit we already made. IMO, this would go against everything that made NEM a valuable idea in the first place.
You have absolutely no idea how much good developers cost, do you?
Valuable ideas are a dime a dozen.
'Common sense' is allocating shares to development of tier 2 features. Common sense is donating your own personal share to charity, or organizing a group of stakeholders that are like-minded and want to donate 10% of their stake into a pool.
Allocating unassigned shares to charity before an alpha is released is pure lunacy.