The more incentives that are removed from the DAO, the more impediments will be introduced to adoption. We should be exploring ways to INCREASE incentives to participate not reduce them.
VeBetterDAO Proposal: Enhancing Fairness and Sustainability in Weekly Allocations and Voting Rewards
With linear, if you have 100k VOT3, you could expect a 1K B3TR reward with no GM NFT and Mars would boost you to 2k B3TR.
With quadratic (how the framework was originally designed), 100k would get you roughly 100 B3TR and Mars would boost you to 200.
The framework of the DAO was not designed to support that type of shift in dynamics, which is likely why this passed and will now be corrected.