TDR is a collective tax and a redistribution of wealth. There is no good reason that the chain as a whole should be paying to incentivize liquidity of coins outside of key trading pairs. Stables and key wrapped assets should be the only focus and anything else is generally a waste of resources for the chain as a whole to be financing.
I am also deeply concerned about platforms being able to use their TDR allocations to favor their own LSTs. This is a centralization concern and it is giving dApps the power to drive out competition using rewards that we are all footing the bill for.
TDR has been and continues to be abused and it should be ended. And I’m very disappointed that we have now regressed from a system of voting on these measures to a system where platforms are once again able to pick and choose allocations without even the legitimacy of a vote.
We are now going on two years of a program that was supposed to be both temporary and limited. Yet, it appears to be neither. We keep shoveling money out the door without any real game plan, reevaluation, or reflection. The continuation of this program, particularly in this fashion has me to the point that I am essentially abandoning hope that discussion in these forums can effect positive change or that rank and file voices really matter all that much.