Beside the aforementioned summary calls, the bulk of the debate happened within the forum threads of the individual proposals (including withdrawn ones) listed in Future of Zcash dev funding — megathread / everything in one place , followed by the two polling rounds.
Sorry, but these are many thousands of discussion comments, and to see all the nuances discussed (and why people are fatigued) you’d have to read those…
The bottom line is that among the many proposals and ideas considered, there were quite a few involving new legal entities and reserved board positions of various sorts. Both in formal draft ZIPs, and informally suggested in discussion comments. Some of these were withdrawn or abandoned by their authors due to unresolved major issues. Some made it to the first poll and did not garner support. None passed both filters.
So you see, it’s not that we aren’t taking the idea seriously. It’s that we already took it seriously, and discussed it during most of the past year. You’re looking at the endgame. Which is not to say we can’t continue the discussion that you and @lex_node are calling for, but please see my suggestion for how to proceed above.