It should have been 100% frozen, the proposal can decide what to do.
Some unknown centralized group decided that it wouldn't be frozen, it would trickle. They also decided the trickle rate.

2 entirely unnecessary and avoidable centralized decisions on the 'decentralized' chain before it started.

I'll agree certain things like who else to punish and what to name the chain needed to be decided quickly, but the trickle could have waited (or well justifyed including the reason for thebspecific trickle rate, account names and stakes of all the decision makers). We got like 200k in the dao and at least 100 days to use it.