"We would be trying to predict what the market would decide, rather than vying over control of the One Ring of Power - the official/reference implementation of Bitcoin. Much rancor could be dispensed with."

@Zangelbert Bingledack, I'm somewhat sympathetic to your cause but I don't really see how the market mechanism operates here, outside of a very broad definition of "market" which encompasses politics. Node voting doesn't work at all. Without that you are still reduced to politics and whoever shouts the loudest in trying to convince miners what block size they should use.