It seems to me that seed funding was treated too much as a disconnected financial bet instead of a connected reasoned instrument? I mean, the seed as a small lu

It seems to me that seed funding was treated too much as a disconnected financial bet instead of a connected reasoned instrument? I mean, the seed as a small lump sum of money plus closed-circle services buys time but nothing organic. More consideration seems being given to industry-tailored, vertical seeds aka the big players playing with startups as prospective, cheap, external, disposable, temporary r&d departments.