{"data":{"proposalCid":"QmcZumKtoc3REWijUWEgSXnj6tyNtZZV3dXwUuZXPZTZMa","choices":["Nay"],"remark":"The current ~$1M proposal for six months of Polkadot App development raises major concerns around inflated costs, weak execution, and a lack of accountability. The app remains in poor shape despite being announced by Birdo in September 2023. Over a year and half later, it still features an outdated design, confusing onboarding, and unresolved UX issues. Promises after promises going unmet, the community is losing hope around this project fast. There is also no transparency around how the app will assign staking pools to users. A fair, decentralized, and criteria-based pool selection mechanism must be clearly defined and auditable. This is a serious risk, as the implementing team could place all newcomers that tap \"earn\" into their own pools without consent (the plan as they described today), with a handful of people at PCF choosing who benefits and who is excluded. Without guardrails, new people could also be put into poorly performing pools without warning, harming their first experience with Polkadot. Since it currently takes ~28 days to unbond from a staking pool, this could be a very poor experience for new users to go through if not handled correctly. Further, given the chosen dev team is the people behind Nova Wallet (a competing app), the conflicts of interest are hard to ignore. One could easily argue they are incentivized to keep the app feature set super limited/lackluster as to not divert users away from their own app, which would be a shame given how much money they are looking to raise from the Polkadot treasury. The proposed dev compensation is also much higher than avg and more than what most infra. devs earn working on the future of Polkadot atm. With all that said, this proposal should be rejected and the project opened back up as a transparent RFP process. A lower budget version of the same team and plan is not a sufficient solution. The community deserves a mobile app led by qualified builders, selected through an open and competitive process.","voterNetwork":"polkadot","version":"4","timestamp":1748465821},"address":"12KtA8mtfsK1CyQb4utLiwG3ao22z77w2cM2GqnaL2RiDCoJ","signature":"0xe69fbff82b0a2de8a984876813c16f6463feeabc760a319d5710ab9d2eb10049e701616b4c72f903bda7958b0e0e295bc35c7806053c2222046cd2649a4c9e89","version":"2"}