Personally, I'm very skeptical and suspicious of these poorly concealed attempts at grabbing more power across the forum, at first through such "interest checks" and then by kicking up a racket about "elections" of a new global moderator...
Would you honestly prefer it if things went on entirely behind closed doors? I like things such as Interest Checks as it gives a chance for the community to say how they feel about a certain addition to the forum. If a feature is implemented into the forum that negatively affected people here it wouldn't be very good for the forum or the community, something like an interest check prevents this from happening.
If you're against the person posting them, tough; Lauda seems to be one of the few staff members trying to help things here. Posting thread such as this gives Lauda no power over anything to do with the forum without theymos' permission. If you can't trust that theymos would do the right thing, you shouldn't be here.