Operatingcan We will be posting a DAO budget approval which includes regular contributors and bounties following this proposal however we won't be doing a compensation break down per contributor or department. Let us know if you have questions as to why.
Valid point on the roadmap, we can definitely help here.
Market validation-could you please expand here?
Unsure of where you're getting 16 core members but as you have been informed multiple times the Core team was funded by the early investors of the protocol. This scenario is not unique, it has been utilized for protocols such as Vesta, Redacted, Olympus and so on.
This KIP is to provide funding to contributors to support continued development of products and services. Also it is important to note that the protocol health is very hands-on at this point and time. If all contributors up and left the protocol would spiral itself toward an unsustainable and inevitably bad predicament.