...The majority of delegates will want to jump off the cliff, and only a few will be trying to do the right thing and change directions faster...
I'm not sure what you mean by this?
All grass roots, and beurocratic organizations have the same problem. First off, you can't do anything alone, especially with world finances like this. You need to have the largest herd possible. So, the problem becomes, how do you get the largest possible herd (get smart people to stop splitting), AND get that herd to make the drastic and often difficult to make changes necessary for survival and the most rapid possible progress, without getting bogged down by size.
And leading minds, like everyone creating all the Alt coins, are like cats. If we could all work together, efficiently and intelligently, everyone working together, rather than trying to kill everyone else, or hoping they die, we would have conquered the financial world by now.
There is always popular herding opinion, that is often not the best way to think, believe, and act. A few minority experts always see this first, but how do you make it easy for them to help the entire herd to get educated, and change directions as fast as possible.
I think that in the near future, the Bitshares community will be faced with an existential issue. If the herd does the right thing, instantly, they will survive, if they do the wrong thing (like Bitcoin is choosing to stay with POW) or if it takes too long to get all delegates to OK a change, we will die, or be significantly hurt, compared to what could be. You can already see this today - inability to get the entire herd to see the best rules to make for BitUSD and all that. Sure, THE bytemaster is the world's most brilliant person with all this, but we could do so much better, if everyone could communicate concisely and quantitatively. We need a quantitatively measurable way to determine what the experts believe is best. Like is possible at Canonizer.com, we could be progressing so much faster, without THE bytemaster bottleneck. We all need to be able to perform at his level, if we really want to change direction fast as a huge herd, without having lots of splitters. diluting or forking things.