2. Many people are locking all their eth holdings at the same time in this fund- This will prevent them from acting on eth price fluctuations that I might possibly wish to exploit- I want to leave my options open.
3. The idea of creating a company that makes executive decisions by direct democracy is untested and may simply be nonviable.
4. There's some hairy legal issues that could cause liability for shareholders, and I'd rather not have that anxiety in my life.
This isn't true - it been tested and runs successfully at scale:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_democracy#Current_ap...
Two examples with Wikipedia entries that were easy to find are mentioned there:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation - turns over ~$16B USD and employed ~74,000 people.