I definitely get that. My biggest annoyance in the bitcoin space is when someone says they expect X outcome, but all their actions are Y. If they said they wanted X and did X things, or Y and Y things, I'd be fine with it. The contradictions just annoy me.
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Anyway, no matter what you want to do, no matter how optimized and tested it is, will get shot down by a dozen people saying “there is no consensus” and a couple of Core maintainers who won’t merge anything “controversial”.
You're probably right. I don't realistically see anything getting through without some crisis prompting it.