I'm all for more experimentation, but at this point, I think what we have here is as good a compromise as any I've seen.
It's not perfect, 'the community' is more a series of cliques than a cohesive whole or discussion would have been tried before flags.
I'm not ready to throw in the towel, but then I don't have enough influence to be a threat to tptb, either.

Perhaps you could airdrop influence on the new chain to those on this chain that meet some criteria in order to build interest.
If blurt and most of the layer 2's are to serve as examples, launching a new platform is going to be an uphill climb.