Fair question, appreciate you asking directly.

Initial decrease was announced here: @ecency/we-re-reducing-our-proposal - we cut from 396 to 300 HBD/day, reduced team and expenses to bare minimum. Shortly after, Hetzner increased prices roughly 11.6% and with load continuously increasing, we brought back our full Hive node to handle that load while also contributing to Hive node decentralization.

On the "vague and generic" point - fair feedback, taking it on board. We under promise and over deliver, and I believe our work and transparency speaks to that. All our work is opensource and anyone can cross check code changes on https://github.com/ecency

The deliverables are concrete and communicated monthly via blog posts... going deeper and converting some of the functionality and services even further, beside keeping full hive rpc node, image hoster service we plan on improving self-hosted infrastructure, consider moving eSync sync pipeline to HAF based unified approach, Mobile app development, MetaMask/EVM onboarding/marketing, and deeper integration of hive-x402 facilitator for AI agent payments on Hive. Happy to break any of these down further if useful - we can also publish a more detailed roadmap post to address exactly this kind of question.
Thanks for engaging seriously with it.