DAO funding gets 10% of the inflation budget. The reward pool gets 65%. Fundamentally with this structure the DAO can never be a full substitute for directing funds where stakeholders think they should be directed to add the most value. We did, indeed, use all available DAO funds first. With that having been done it is still up to stakeholders whether reward funds ought to be directed there as well.

As others noted, as a stakeholder you are definitely entitled to vote for what you think adds the most value.