I'm also concerned about the disconnect between the goals of the devs and the goals of the investors.

The most valid complaint I've seen is that the EF wants to take no part in an advocacy role in the ecosystem. Bitcoin has no foundation so their ecosystem picks up this role themselves. Solana has the Solana Foundation which takes up this mantle themselves willingly. Ethereum has this kind of void where an advocacy department should be. This makes investors feel deprioritized as all the EF focuses is on is tech.