I have lots of scattered thoughts - some of which link back to your previous post...

Thought 1

I pretty much agree with everything in this comment.

Most of the development that I've seen since joining has been the result of a "passion project" or a user's desire to learn, investigate and experiment. Or something's annoyed them. From my experience prior to #proposal-86 (alternative interface, club status, zombie apocalypse, etc.), the rewards would only reflect a tiny percentage of the effort involved - hence the need for an alternative, non-monetary motivation.

Thought 2

The idea of having a team of stakeholders whose votes will accumulate in order to fund projects is pretty much the existing DAO (we are all essentially sacrificing a portion our rewards to fund it). I think that it'll take quite a long time to accumulate enough to fund a meaningful couple of weeks development.

Thought 3

Linking in to Thought 2, the primary difference that I see between this proposal and the DAO is the timeframe involved - i.e. short sprints vs. long term funding. @steemchiller's suggested to me in the past about the creation of a "min-DAO" or "DAO-light" which could use the same source of funds but allow people to submit "micro-proposals", for short-term, smaller projects. If steemchiller gets a moment, I'd be interested in him sharing his thoughts on your post.

Thought 4

Thinking beyond the scope of the community to run/manage this - what is Steemit's over-arching strategy of what it wants to (or needs to) be? What will attract external investment which will ultimately increase the price of STEEM? Using Hive as a good example, they've spent loads of money on dApps - a fragmented strategy filling the pockets of the individuals running each project. Their cartel will claim "value for money" but the only project that's had a noticeable impact upon the price of Hive was Splinterlands - which the cartel felt threatend by and ended support for.

It'll be interesting to see if/how we can reach a consensus as to what the vision of Steemit and STEEM is. #proposal-86 has the vision of making steemit.com a superior blogging experience to its competitors - therefore leading to better quality bloggers / a more attractive blogging proposition. Would an alternative interface help this or detract from it? (i.e. hive.blog vs. peakd.com - does the alternative simply belittle the core?)

As per my introduction, my thoughts are scattered. I can't help but feel that the DAO should already be fulfilling this purpose and perhaps all that's missing is an appropriate forum for discussing and agreeing to ideas (Suggestions Club) before a DAO proposal is submitted and accepted. Which also feels like the role of the top witnesses and what they've been voted to do.

Apologies if this appears confused - no time to proof read.