Let's say two years from now if the top witnesses realize that it would have been best for the long term health of the chain and the community it is too late and other people are just on other chains doing the same thing. It is already happening. The same exact thing is replaying on some of the other DPos chains. It just becomes a money grab and then everyone gravitates to greener pastures or tries to have a hand in 4 or 5 different chains.
Guys like me just try to catch little waves and really can't go deep on this project because from the start it was rekt. So I have to focus on chains that are earlier in their life cycle like EOS.
The biggest bottleneck for feature requests like this is developers who are capable of developing a change that is “production ready” If someone could make a proposal in GitHub and coded it up, I don’t think consensus (witness approval) would be that big of an issue.