I just voted YES to the Amaru Node Budget Request. Node diversity is of paramount importance, the team is super solid, and the budget is reasonable. TX hash 7d0faffd6b1ed204415f364754cabffa816b73a37a06c931b8a8170d762c198f Let's go @pragma_org !

Sure, When writing code to develop an application in the traditional world (non blockchain), usually, you have to interact with other services like for example a database. Now, most of the database provider (like mysql, postgres, oracle etc) have made super simple to run a database on your computer or laptop. When developing a dApp on Cardano, or other blockchain, you MUST talk to a blockchain. Cardano has 3 main chains: preview, preprod, mainnet. Developing against REAL blockchain can be slow and problematic: you must fund wallets you want to use, wait for blocks to be produced every 20 seconds etc etc... on top of that, you need to talk to the blockchain, so you need an account on maestro, blockfrost etc.... Even worse, if you're 40k feet on an airplane on a 10h flight, you can't work, coz you got no internet. A DevKit is a "kit" or "toolbox" which give you ALL you need to write a dApp on Cardano w/o being connected to interenet or something. Chain is superfast (1second block for example) and you can fund all teh wallets you want, mint tokens etc, just w/ a snap of the finger. 0 wait time. Blockfrost, ogmios and all this is running already for you, for free etc. As result, writing code is much faster experience, faster feedback etc and should make people happier and less frustrated. Does it help?