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Cory asks: "Why should a Bitcoiner care whether DEXes exist? What are the use cases?"
Well, if we don't have DEXes, government can just shutdown the party by closing down CEXes. As always, decentralization is the opposite of having single points of failure. Single points of failure make the system fragile. Decentralized designs like bisq make the system robust.
The use cases are plenty: private transactions (which have many reasons to be useful), low fees (yes, you can achieve fees lower than many exchanges), trust-less trades that don't rely on an organization, the social pleasure of dealing with a peer on equal conditions instead of a massive corporation like Coinbase.
And DEXes work for people even if they don't use them: the fact that some unknown mass of bitcoiners is using DEXes helps protect the entire network from attacks, since any pressure on CEXes would incentivize shifting over to DEXes, further strengthening the network resilience.
One thing that's great since project's inception is that we're all funded by different entities. Thus far we had: Spiral, HRF, OpenSats, Foundry, Bitmex, Galaxy. Some of the entities even allowed their employees to work on SRI.
It's tough, but back when I started doing FOSS Bitcoin 7 years ago, situation is much better. There are now so many entities that recognize good and valuable work. I would say that each and every one of us first added some proof of work, before applying for a grant.
Situation can always be better, as someone handling this side of the things for contributors of SRI, one thing that could be better is mullti-year support so that contributors don't have to worry every 6-months or 12-months if their grants will be renewed,