We are currently waiting on the administrative review of AIP-442: Grant Ships: Accelerating ApeCoin’s Ecosystem Evolution - Active Proposals / AIP Drafts - ApeCoin DAO
If this program were to go through it would allow the DAO to allocate a budget for Grant funding/ grant funding season. It certainly wouldn’t stop anyone from continuing to make AIP proposals however there are cases where a grant make more sense than an entire AIP. The way Grant Ships is designed is to surface the people or groups that are best able to find projects to get grants.