Funding open source developers doesn’t increase risk of breaking things. You can spend billions hard forking the protocol with teams of hundreds. Bitcoin doesn’t stay “safe” because open source devs scrape by on funding.

Maybe a bad analogy but, do the highest paid doctors get lazy and start killing patients? Or do they make the most money because they deliver the best results? There was a lot of money and hash behind bcash and it failed spectacularly. There’s obviously a nonzero chance. Even so this appears to be mitigated by how open sats delivers funding. Reviewing the project and voted on by a board.