I’m getting 300 MANA per month from the Foundation for my catalyst, that’s 180 USD per month, I’m losing money running a catalyst, you are complaining I got 3.6k MANA (2.2k USD at current rate) over the last year when you are asking for nearly 20k for a year.
I believe I can do what you propose for less than half the price, which would be cheaper even including Foundation “subsidiary”.
I have the data because I ran a catalyst since the launch, using personal money and making sure to keep all the data on my own time and cost (backup cost money, in addition to running the server), I could have enable garbage collection to save money but I went out of my way to make sure everything was save-keeped, never made any money from it.
My goal is not to stifle development groups from contributing, I just believe I can provide a similar service for way cheaper, saving the DAO some money.
I also want to see how [DAO: bafkrei] Creation of DAO-Owned Data Aggregation Layer for Decentraland Core goes after a year.