What the proposal is not saying, and probably should be updated in somehow, is that the DAO will have to get used to tapping income streams rather sooner than later. Eventually the SPS mint will stop and while many claim that it needs to stop sooner rather than later it is also the only way to finance rewards currently. At some point rewards and prizes will have to come from somewhere other than print because the SPS DAO will not be able to throw out more SPS as rewards. You get the idea.

If anything I think the compensation for the SPL team is too low, but then again, I have zero information to make this more of a hunch.