Josh Swihart argued that if Zcash's developer fund is to be eliminated, it should be removed entirely rather than partially restructured. "A half measure leaves the door open to ongoing debate and politics," Swihart stated, pushing back against incremental approaches to the network's funding mechanism. Ian Miers raised concerns that the proposed Network Security Model (NSM) could effectively serve as a replacement dev fund under a different name. Miers warned that the NSM risks becoming "a dev-fund-in-waiting," suggesting the restructuring may not truly eliminate centralized development funding but instead obscure it within a new framework.