Stakeholders can certainly reassess how they vote on proposals, and you are free to advocate for this, but if you want to directly affect the DHF payouts, the way to do that is for stakeholders to vote for the return proposal and stop voting for some or all other proposals.

I'm largely in favor of this, but we also have to accept that if it doesn't happen, we've been outvoted. Stakeholders have differing views on the value that proposals bring to the long term viability and success of Hive, and how to weigh this against a particular short term mechanical calculation of inflation level. I'd also say that for a platform that has only limited present success, longer term initiatives are pretty important to extremely important. But that doesn't mean wasting money has value. So it's all a balance.