It helps people who did good (for free? for achieving something they expected would be impactful and get a retro grant?) have more resources
Regarding the downsides:
I agree
But everything has downsides. The question is not if there are downsides, the question is how does that situation compare to the alternative, which seems to be “people who do really good impactful stuff almost never get funding, and this is a well known fact”.
I think there is value:
It creates incentives
It helps people who did good (for free? for achieving something they expected would be impactful and get a retro grant?) have more resources
Regarding the downsides:
I agree
But everything has downsides. The question is not if there are downsides, the question is how does that situation compare to the alternative, which seems to be “people who do really good impactful stuff almost never get funding, and this is a well known fact”.