Actually, everyone understands that governance tokens often govern not the protocol, but people's hearts: I delegate my votes to those few addresses that "look professional," to save trouble, but as a result, it increasingly resembles a oligarch meeting... I’ve fallen for it myself, and later I just delegated only to people whose stance I can clearly explain; if I can't explain it, I don't vote, even if it means less "governance participation." This is even more obvious during the airdrop season, with task platforms both fighting against whales and doing point systems, and the token farmers act like clocking in at work, but in the end, the snapshot weights are still those big accounts and proxy votes talking. Anyway, I now prefer to go slower, do less, and not use "participating in governance" as an excuse for myself.