The title is pretty dramatic, but the author has some fair points
This industry sadly over-indexes so heavily on economic incentives that the author makes the point that it‘s actually impossible for JS and Feist to stay integer. But this is wrong. You can totally resist economic incentives and I‘m living proof of that
I agree with Tim, and I think Justin and Dankrad or any similar figure amongst the core developers had better be positioned on such advisory roles especially at the emergent protocols building on top of Ethereum. Many underestimate how fragile a process it's to maintain a protocol such as Ethereum itself, and these new primitives, althoug superb, pose risks to the entire architecture given the behavioral economics they drive. Leave or love it sort of matters I assume is of pastimes, and we cannot risk the main frame implode—nor can we force people to do it free. Anyone well-disciplined can be incentivized in such ways.
forgive my ignorance, Eth foundation just hands out money, or they play a big role in upgrades to the protocol?