i'd love to pick your brain and ask you questions
You would be wasting his time, time that could be spent designing and developing.
like "so why is it you are shooting for 95% hashing power before activating segwit?" but you're busy, and I dont want to disturb you
Yes, BIP16 used a lower activation threshold. The modern high thresholds are a result of learning from (and successfully preventing) the consensus disruption that happened with low thresholds.
but you're right i should read up more and then i'd be the one schooling other poeple here.
Sorry to break it to you, but you're far from 'schooling' other people.