Just wanted to chime in to say I fully support having a diverse set of systems built on top of veBAL. The recent launches of sdANGLE and sdCRV are a good validation of the novel approach Stake DAO is taking here. I would like to see the contract address added to the proposal and a bit of time for anyone interested to review it - otherwise happy to offer my support for this proposal.
As far as bundling the whitelisting of sdBAL and the whitelisting of the gauge in the same proposal, I don’t see a huge problem with it really. Ultimately forcing two votes is theatre for the most part, with the main value being the ability for the community to confirm the gauge matches the pool it’s supposed to. As long as the pool address and the gauge address are posted publicly here when they’re created I think it should be fine.