My take is a bit different. As a long time Dev and infosec expert who wants to contribute to the STEEM ecosystem, I'dd be happy to prioritize my work counter to any financial insentives according to priorities set by a community initiative if I'dd believe that initiative indeed carried the voice of the community.

There currently three aspects of the STEEM Alliance that make me doubt the Alliance could be able to be the voice of the community. Two of them relating to this voting round.

The first aspect, that was already attenuated by the recent update of dpoll was the fact that at poll start, the only way to vote in a stake based way required the exposure of the users active key to SteemConnect. This was fixed mid voting, so it possibly might have been missed by security aware and high stake account holders who would otherwise have voted.

A second issue with this voting round: There was no way to vote for people who thought neither of the proposals was good enough, other than not to vote. There was no "they all suck" option.

Both these issues can be easily fixed: run a two choices poll. Accept the top proposal or reject it. Running that second poll will show the world and independent devs that Steem Aliance aims to be the voice of the community and as such is someone we can talk business with.

The third issue with Steem Aliance, and an issue that while not directly addressed in this vote has aspects in the proposals that would be attenuated by community support for the proposal, is the issue of Steemit Inc indépendance un terms of voice. If the community. If I'dd prioritize a hundred hours listening to priorities set by a community initiative, I'dd like to know I'm actually doing the community's bidding as community volunteer, not working as an underpaid contracter for Steemit Inc.