optimism grants funding confusion comes down to:
- when optimism talks about "retro funding", they talk about the entire arc of retro grants they will do over the next N years
- readers think optimism is talking about specifically round 4, or at best, rounds 4-7. when really, optimism is talking about rounds 4-N

so when optimism says “everything is eligible for retro funding” they mean over the course of the next N rounds, but readers think they mean on round 4 specifically or round 4-7. so readers get upset when their thing isn’t included in 4-7