Just sitting on a pile of gold only ever gives you a bad back.
Throwing it to anyone won't bring anything good as well. I don't vote for every proposal but I always try to explain why, maybe it's time to do it publicly to open some space for discussions.
We've got plenty of funds in our DHF and that's great but we still need to spend it reasonably. We need more minor proposals to get approved to encourage "smaller" developers to make valuable stuff on Hive. People tend to refresh the proposals with increased funding which I often consider as "easy money" and that might be the main reason for this "passive-aggressive behavior" from some stakeholders. I do understand it but would personally prefer constructive criticism.
Why would you invoke the opposite extreme? No one even implied that.