The proposal is only used as a "poll". It has minimal budget (I believe required to create the proposal) and the proposal pays directly back to the @steem.dao account so no one gets any payment from it.

What i haven't seen optioned is changing the weekly payout to a daily payout

Interesting idea. Off the top of my head: the advantage of getting some funds sooner vs. the disadvantage of always losing funds to a hack even if caught within a few days. Also possibly somewhat more involved of a coding change, although I'd guess still quite easy.