I'm very worried about our ability to attract and retain new players

Me too.

I am even worried about the experiment, because there is nothing to learn from this. We already know if we let people exploit they will exploit. We have tested this hypothesis so many times that we can seal this as a law and write it just below the landing page where we say:

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The DAO proposal will be a strong NO from my end. I am not willing to spend a single SPS for this. I will also lobby so that other stakeholders see reason and vote NO when the proposal comes.