Sometimes I think we mistake "Serious Money" the amount is similar amount to 4 flats in Poland - or one small shit hole in London.
With same amount of cash we are getting various projects all across the world. Some are obviously questionable and it's worth to ask the questions then because I think the community deserve get those answers.
Generally I can tell you that not everything is so clear - Bring people you get cash - because we might end up with some useless bots - and one steevc is more important than million bots ;) .
Some "uneffective" things such as Bore Holes gives us confidence, we can brag about it and some people will want to even listen what is blockchain because up to the point when you bring some initiatives then they think of crypto as a meme coins. Then even wealthy people want to listen then what is Hive.
I think we need time and I believe with time VP will mature. As the community we need check ups with each year but based on that I feel like VP seems to be more mature and serious.