What has bothered me since the start was the marriage of open source with the investment herding. It feels like a massive conflict-of-interest, because as I pointed out, it impacts critically important design decisions.
Except you were and are wrong. Investors have never had any influence on any design decisions, most certainly not reptilia and debasement, as I explained that was not only wrong, but chronologically impossible -- by the way, are are aware that the stated design explicitly includes the possibility of perpetual debasement, and we are unanimously in favor of it?
In fact when investors occasionally try to exert some influence, it often produces the opposite result due to pushback.
Here's my reply when someone once tried to suggest that we do something on the basis of whether he would invest or some sort of alleged responsibility we have to investors. The rest of the team feels similarly if not more strongly.
3. I don't give a fuck about pandering to investors. They are free to speculate or short terms swings or to invest in the long term possibility that we are able to develop this project to something much greater than it is today. You are also perfectly free to do neither.
I'm sorry, but you are simply talking out of your ass, or perhaps projecting based on your belief about how things could work or might work, or possibly you are misled by reptilia's portrayal of his own influence or importance. Your belief is incorrect.