I would much rather support something that is we actually need (even if it might end up buggy and unfinished) than something we don't need but may be finished.

ssb only got to the point that we even got to this whole grant thing is because of a number of people (not just me) building things we needed, for free. Well, I'd like to improve ssb to the point were it can provide (somehow) income to people who are needed to develop it further.

There are lots of other things we actually need (another example is bookmarks/curation). I'm sure there are many things that would still be useful with half the features.