All evidence is to the contrary of this. The dev tax has stifled innovation in the zcash ecosystem compared to other opensource ecosystems by creating a no pay no play mentality. There has been no indication that continuing funding would improve the number of non-dev tax recipient developers (aka organic growth) or that having a development fund has or would improve roi for zodlers. Recipients of the funds have no accountability to deliver milestones or continue operations.
There is an entire zero-knowledge world that has sprung up over the last few years. Wallets, L2 execution environments, zkvm’s, conferences. Zcash isn’t apart of this innovation because it has the luxury of the dev tax shielding it from having to make friends and investors. Zips have been managed by recipients, wallets are managed by recipients, social media managed by recipients, etc etc there is no incentive to collaborate with the out group.
let the fund expire.