Agreed, it’s easy to say move fast & fix the plane as we go but… we’re barely into takeoff and already the groups being proposed are either not compelling/well-thought-out, or are ops/meta groups in reaction to the former.
I think a few of us agree one major misstep here, as you also called out, is the incentive to write up a proposal knowing you’re the defacto recipient of the capital.
Consider adding your thoughts to the Talent Recruitment WG here, which could help put some much needed pressure on proposals if we can start saying “we have folks who can do this job, we don’t need the author (or we don’t even need it to be a WG)”