For what it’s worth, I proposed that we needed a grant committee in order to be nimbler instead of having to send everything through governance, but I will not be part of it - I’m leaving someone else to deal with that problem. 
Having said that…
It’s a fair point, but that’s also one of the reasons why in the discussion I separated grants for things that would be under community control from applications that are directly investable.
I personally think applications and protocols are better suited for partnership conversations than grants, so that details like exclusivity or potential token exchanges to align incentives can be hashed out. In a scenario involving a token exchange instead of a straight-up no-strings-attached grant, if a protocol were to later switch to Lido then at least Marinade would still have some upside.
It’s up to the committee to choose where to draw the line, though.