I think you are somehow right in your speculation, if Saylor is behaving that way is probably because if too many grants get assigned to core devs, then those devs might feel the need to perform all types of changes and start thinking of roadmaps, etc. Justify their grants sort of!

Plus it will attract other devs like flies. Do we really want to have devs who are there only/mainly for the money? It’s a dilemma! Some food for thought @ODELL 

 This is something I would love to see @odell openly discuss and address.  it would give me much more confidence in him.