I am perfectly fine with this. This should have been done a long time ago. Let individual projects lobby for their vote. This is the right way to get funding.
90% of the hive members do not even know which projects are getting funded and why. That need to change. This action by blocktrades will force that change.
The bar is higher now. A lot more effort is needed to get funding. Not impossible though. Also I doubt we will see lowering the HP for the return as others might start unvoting the return, lowering the bar a bit