The Celo Foundation deciding which proposals to advance is a significant centralization factor. Do we know what the plans are to decentralize this over time?
In our protocol design decisions, the assumption has always been that the approver would be migrated to a more decentralized set of individuals over time, although I can’t speak for the plans of the Foundation itself. Proposal approval is not designed to be high-barrier, and if the approver is ever blocking proposals that have broad community support, that would be a form of constitutional crisis. Its purpose is to prevent spamming proposals, or misleading proposals that if voted for would severely harm network stability. I definitely think this will be a topic going forward, and there are a lot of interesting questions to answer about what a decentralized approval mechanism would look like!