I don’t have much opinion about the 2% burn itself, but I tried to get clarity to the issue from previous discussions. My results:
Here is link to the Whitepaper, saying it was updated and released Dec 5th 2024.
And here is a link to the forum discussion about it. (Search didn’t find a mention of burn there.)
And here is a link to video record of White paper walkthrough session, to the point in time where they say that the variables of incentive reserve is still undecided. This video was uploaded on Dec 4th 2024, a day before the white paper was released. I’m not sure if the walkthrough session itself was on the same day or earlier. (Anyway, I didn’t see a mention about burn close to that timepoint.)