I understand your perspective on that, competition drives the best outcomes. As it stands, Aura does hold >65% of veBAL so there is a consideration for capital efficiency and appeasing Balancer’s largest stakeholder in that regard. The financial-political landscape is a reality every* DAO must consider. Personally, I think more diverse wrappers would be healthier; but at least we now will have several large DAOs building veBAL positions as a side affect.
Paladin does support vlAura voting, so only StakeDAO may be disappointed by the framing of this program. Teams can still opt to not utilize this, have core pools, and use StakeDAO, naked veBAL or any other incentive approach they choose. Since this is an opt in choice, I’d rather not use the colorful language you chose; especially when it seems a bit extreme for something no one “has” to do.
I hope it works well too 