Recently, I keep seeing a bunch of people saying, “Just delegate your votes to XX representatives.” It’s convenient, but the more “convenient” it is, the more it feels like you’re nurturing an oligarchy... Put simply, governance tokens often don’t govern the protocol—they govern the laziness of token holders. Everyone’s busy grabbing testnet incentive rewards, farming points, and at the same time imagining whether the mainnet will issue tokens. The votes get tossed casually, and in the end, the decisions are still made by those few addresses.

I’m just a small retail investor, and I can do only two things: don’t delegate for the long term lightly, and if I do delegate, I’ll switch/revoke it on a regular basis; read one more time before signing, and clean up the authorization when it’s supposed to be cleared. Governance is truly costly to participate in, but if you outsource power for too long, then when you want to find the “community” later, all that’s left are announcements.