1) 1 central back bone on which the principal miner pools are connected amongst themselves (from 5 to 14 say)
2) mostly direct server-client links to these 5 - 14 data centres by all "seriouis" client nodes, in order to get the most reliable block chain directly from the source as quickly as possible
3) at the periphery, small amateur nodes connecting in P2P mode to the serious client nodes, if they don't manage to go to one of the main servers.
You just described a nice plan for your future BTU network, not anything I'd have the slightest interest about.
It looks like a completely irreconciliable vision of what Bitcoin should be, so let's make the split clean (and good luck with those devs).