to moderate on this slightly - i should have included the caveats "should the situation not improve.."
feature funding / "pay to play" comes with not great tradeoffs - bulk maintenance funding with safeguards to deliver gives continuity, along with political autonomy
i have a strong conviction that client teams should start pricing Hegota EIPs by complexity, refusing to prototype until funding is attached
to add further insult to irony, the bedrock guarantees of network client diversity make honest pricing even harder