Yes, I increasingly think that funds are our problem, not an advantage. Funds interfere with disinterested motivation, or rather shift developers from motivating a long-term holder of purchased coins for their hard-earned savings, to motivating a contractor who wants to receive current remuneration pegged in dollar terms. When I see this, the attacks on miners who do their job based on the motivation of the current market situation become doubly unclear to me. Therefore, the reason why grant moderation is very important is the human factor. We cannot know for sure that the offer we receive does not have parasitic motivation.
However, I am also sure that this year a number of interesting projects have received funding that would not have been implemented without ZOMG. Therefore, we need to keep going down this path and resist the urge to draw conclusions before we can appreciate the effect of this work.