@mhluongo, responding to a couple of things you said during the Protocol Hangout today:
[the easing function ensures that] the Foundation doesn’t make gobs and gobs of money
The Foundation is a nonprofit, and legally required to put this money to well-specified use. Moreiver, it uses some of this money to support grants to many third parties. So it’s weird to consider it a threat for this entity to have excess resources, but then not cap the USD received by external for-profit entrepreneurs, for which none of the above applies.
Also, you mentioned that as an entrepreneur, you’re uncomfortable with the Zcash Foundation grant process, even if the grant amounts are scaled to the magnitude your team requires. Can you please explain what are the problems? Let’s try to fix them within grant program!
Plus, to be blunt: for millions of dollars a year, it’s fine if funding candidates would need to sweat a little and prepare some written plans in the form of a grant proposal.