Gavin's proposal is fit for immediate purposes, but it just kicks the can down the road for future readjustment. This is problematic in that it will then re-require this leader/authority/deciding force.
This is one of those instances I'm talking about regarding people thinking differently.
You and I seem to fundamentally think differently here, and who is to say who is right? I believe whatever hard fork change we make, if we make one, it will be locked in quite probably forever more. It won't be subject to adjustment. Whatever it is future users will have to work with, sort of like we simply have to work with 1MB if we can't adequately change it. This is due to an ossifying of the protocol, again, as I
mentioned above.
Rather than accepting an extrapolation which is guaranteed to be wrong, ...
Define "wrong".