The key difference between a lot of those proposals that are "objective based" where it's "I need 20k to do x/y" my proposal is based on man hours

You offering no objectives to be held accountable against is now in favor of your overfunding. Whereas it should be counted against other proposal's commitment to accountability?
I would wager a guess that your fellow receivers of funding are also able to adequately tailor their time commitments to funding levels.