For years I've been unhappy with how DefaultTrust ended up as a centralized and largely-untouchable authority...
What is more centralized and untouchable authority than you unilaterally getting to exclude people from default trust no matter how many others trust them?
I agree. I think we're needlessly complicating an already complicated system even more and I don't see how much different this system is. I think it will probably actually involve more collusion and backroom deals to exclude people to get them off DT. Older users with friends here will benefit more from it whilst newer users will still be flummoxed by it.
It seems like I raised these issues years ago, but I am a bad man and must be ignored. Now, years later, it is suddenly an issue again. The trust system just turns more and more into a nightmarish Rube Goldberg machine with each new "improvement".
You know what the trust system lacks and desperately needs? Solid, well defined principles that are followed as much as possible. Not more variables to an equation.