I personally would love a bitcoin with staking involved, I know it won't be profitable for small investors like me but neither is mining so at least if rich are getting richer let me pay less transaction fee for it.
Staking adds more problems than it solves. I have never really liked the idea of using coins as voting or power mechanism. We have seen a few exchanges already abuse their role as custodian by staking people's coins.
If you want low fees, use LN. The fees are either 0 or a few satoshis at most depending on the number of hops. The more people signal that they are ready to use LN, the more incentive exchanges have to actually start supporting it.
Instant and near free transactions, who doesn't want that? It will also end the complaining of people to a larger degree.