Love the post, great way of presenting the reality of things.
The only thing that caught my eye is the generalization of us people who would like to see an implementation of "vote decay" (timer/ticker) on witness votes.
Some of us are not for it so as to make anything easier, but in fact the exact opposite.
It is a lot harder to ensure that stake holders contribute i.e. once yearly in accordance with our/their responsibilities, than to just cast a vote and forget about it as if there are no changes going on with anything or anyone relevant to the chain, tokens or business aspects of everything that our governance affects.
Apart from that, fully agree with everything you wrote, especially for those out there who are "complaining" all the time instead of looking at how to make things work better for the right reasons.
nhf, we've all done it, as far as "putting everyone in the same basket", mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa. So I am not throwing a stone your way, just wanted to point out that some of us want to see things move forwards and can justify some changes that will definitely help in the process/path.
Cheers.
That's a fair point. I personally don't think there is really a good argument to be made for vote decay (outside of the cases I talked about in the post), but I agree it is probably not right to throw everybody who supports it into the same bucket. Thanks for pointing that out.