To be clear, my criticism is that witnesses are wasting their time discussing (A LOT, as you say, which makes it even more wasteful) trifling changes, whilst completely ignoring the real root of all problems mentioned above. Witnesses have been doing this for the last two and a half years, and 20 hardforks later, everyone pretends to have not learned very much. Doesn't matter whether it is 50:50 or 2 minute reverse auction or whatever. It's all hopeless without a radical reinvention of how Rshares are allocated. All effort should be allocated towards such research. If there's no better solution, they should be allocated to SMTs, account-based voting and Oracles, as currently that's the best chance we have. (Even though it's not good enough.)