Really appreciate your efforts on bringing more structure, accountability and sensible spending.

I don't know what would work better, but just as an alternative, you could make your own proposal for project xyz and you can run it however you think it makes sense. Not saying this is the best or proper way, I don't know what's better. Just as an option. If the requested funds are far less and it's more focused on a given project, the proposal has higher likelihood of being funded. (On the other hand, being forced to have a consensus between 3 people might give some really good results, with decisions and approaches encompassing a wider perspective - in the best-case scenario.)

One thing I do see as a huge potential improvement is gathering community feedback. For example, for me as a dev, I see gigantic inefficiencies in how funds are spent on dev work. A simple post to request feedback from the community on a particular planned activity/expense can do wonders. Like, many orders of magnitude improvement. So, make a plan, post on-chain for feedback (we can give it in whatever format would be most useful to you), then at the end you incorporate whatever feedback you like - you decide and you don't have to please people or seek consensus from the whole community.