tl;dr I fully support the reimbursement of the work done here but believe the asking amount needs to be re-evaluated.
It was brought to my attention why the core protocol team left comments on the reimbursement of POKTScan’s Geo-Mesh but not here.
Most of my thoughts on the asking amount in this comment transfer over to this preproposal as well.
This asking amount will capture approximately 7% of the DAO’s treasury. Not accounting for Thunderhead’s potential reimbursement request, alongside other work the community is doing (Geomesh, branding, marketing, etc…), and given that there is no active proposal to raise the DAO’s allocation from each block (currently at 10%), my gut is telling me that the figure is simply too large.
I don’t have a good answer to what the amount should be, but I know @shane has been putting a lot of thought and effort into this.