As a community, the easiest way forward would be to appoint *additional* committee members.
No one forces us to stick with the hard-coded minimum of 11, code only prevents us from reaching 1002!
So, community, please apply for committee membership!
It would require quite a large number of additions to be an effective level of decentralization against they-them-those that control billions and trillions. I don't disagree on principle but it isn't a truly practical solution until the numbers get much larger.
Moreover, where are the docs (do any exist?) that describe the operation of the committee? I know there is at least one multisig account each committee member uses, but I'm not aware of any doc that describes how often they meet, how they select issues to discuss or which parameters should be reviewed and how often...
Such information should be documented (perhaps it is, but I am not aware of it) so those who are newly elected know what to expect and can be prepared. I wouldn't volunteer for a role if all I knew about it were generalities.
Think about when you get a new job. Usually the info one needs right away comes from the boss or peers. Company policies and procedures are typically more important for Human Resources than for your every day work, assuming you're not in management.
So when somebody gets elected to committee (clockwork and johnr are most recent additions, you 2 could speak to this) how do they know what to do? Do they rely on other committee members to tell them when meetings occur? Can they be effective in the committee without guidance or instruction from others? How can a new committee member avoid manipulation? Primarily by being well informed and confident the information is accurate.
It seems to me the more we rely on ad hoc methods to orient new people to the role the less independent they will be in making decisions, at least initially, especially of those decisions and issues are framed to achieve an agenda.
I hope these concerns about adding members to the community are baseless, the documentation is available and I'm just not informed of the manor the committee operates. Regardless of committee operations, I just don't believe we could add enough informed committee members to be an effective solution, but the concept of decentralizing the committee further is indeed a good direction to take. 100 or 1000 committee members will be nothing more than puppets to someone's agenda if they are not informed and able to act in the role independently.