This is a great discussion point that is both timely and needed - thank you @Axia for putting this forward!
As we are seeing in other DAOs (i.e. Scroll DAO comes to mind) there seems to be a positive trend beyond delegates just providing forum discourse and voting, which we agree, is very important for grants, but this should allow for delegates to really make an impact.
We agree that this should be a joint discussion with RootstockLabs team (and Anode team) to focus on the greatest impact, however, instead of having RTLabs not only identifying the top 5 priorities (for example) + ways to participate, we would suggest that any proactive “projects/pilots” are created and driven by the delegates.
In otherwords, instead of waiting to have the RTLabs to identify their priorities and then how the delegates can help, we should be driving this - with our own ideas (like your post of the TABConf discussion). Looking forward to continue to developing this idea.