I think it’s apples and oranges. Until very recently the ICF’s sole purpose was to bootstrap the entire Cosmos ecosystem (now it’s more focused on ecosystem maturation). That means we had to take some shots knowing a decent proportion of them would fail. The ICF also has a bizarre arms length relationship with the Hub that’s structurally incapable of serving its business needs. That said, there are some basic learnings on how to run a grants program that I’m happy to share with the grants team should the proposal pass.
As far as vision goes I’m not sure what to tell you. I tried to work on the Hub vision with Port City + ATOM 2.0 with mixed results. I’ve expressed this elsewhere, but I believe the priorities are to make sure interchain security works well, get better incentive alignment with consumer chains, and (securely) deploy liquid staked ATOM absolutely everywhere. No-brainer next steps.