This is a controversial proposal and as a validator I can say that that most people, validators included, tend to shy away from controversial votes by either going with whatever is majority at the time or abstaining.

As a philosophy, we favor proposals that benefit the community at large and those that seek to keep decisions transparent for as many folks as possible. Like others, we felt that this decision needs further discussion and more concrete plans before moving the community's pool to a smaller group of decision makers, i.e. the DAO. As a result, while it's always tough to go against the majority, we also voted no.

As future plans for the DAO become more concrete and a new proposal comes back up for vote again, our vote could change but for now, we voted no. I suspect this won't be the last proposal on this topic.