I do understand the reasoning for the amount of spending, but that conversation can be held for literally every payment we do to supporting services.
We don’t have similar conversations for the spending on for example the OGP, where the output is a lot less visible and I certainly can’t justify the spend vs what we get from it.
So why do we keep having this conversation? Is it just because the OSL is transparent on their metrics and makes it therefore easier to target their metrics? So if we would ask them to be much more vague, would be just approve blindly like is being done on the other majority of funding requests?
I for one think that the OSL is one of the most self-critical organisations around Osmosis existing. They have proven to be of use, proven to be open to cut costs where possible if we look back in history and also deserve our support.
But let’s agree on KPI’s in general. We have never ever done that for any funding request, but we need to start on that in general ASAP.
And with Polaris coming around, we might see new inflow which will heighten the amount of requests. This is not the time to reduce support, but keep it in place, agree on metrics and go from there. If the costs remain to high after the go-live on Polaris we can have the new conversation imo.