My opinions are not dictums, and I very much do encourage all to share theirs as well
Generally, I feel that there should be a strong reason to pass any proposal so scrutiny is warranted. For this issue specifically, since the community funding Stride is already in a pretty advanced state, there is not a strong need to have a second duplicative effort right now
I’m a much bigger proponent of the stride proposal because it has been more widely adopted and battle tested, including on the DYDX chain.
In the future the community could choose to stake directly to a well researched and intentionally chosen selection of validators once authz is implemented and the appropriate legal structure is in place