Hey there! I obviously don’t share the pov of us not adding value or growth to Optimism. We are a team of experienced builders creating novel, and decentralized products while having an Optimism-first approach. With the lack of experienced professional builders in the space I’d urge any project to try to engage and get developers to commit to an Ethereum aligned network. But this is all my personal opinion, and not the team’s. I just think is a good point to raise 
Now, in terms of the distribution:
- Builders: That is exactly what I meant to propose. Maybe (since I’m not english native speaking) I was not clear enough when drafting the proposal.
- Growth strategies and community engagement: Yes, its for us to grow (on Optimism). I don’t see value on your counter-proposal. Airdropping has already been done. This is for growth, keeping community engaged (positive sentiment feedback loop) and user acquisition focused on Optimism. Additionally, our current smart contracts wouldn’t allow us for liquidity mining, which we can also debate on “if it adds real value, or just buys interest”.
- Safety: Added comment on the bottom of the post addressing what the logic was. Maybe my train-of-thought wasn’t intuitive or the community simply doesn’t agree, which is ok also.
Again, I find a lot of value on your feedback so thanks for taking the time for reading our proposal and writing here anon.