At a certain point, you have to accept that the underlying design for a game that's not working is broken and move on to something else.

System is working just fine. No matter how it works there are going to be people that aren't happy with it. There is no evidence to suggest that the way we are doing things now is better or worse than other options.

The only way to truly "fix" the problem is to let the network decide with governance votes. If the network voted 13 times to reduce the powerdown period from 13 weeks to 0 weeks, so be it. Individuals don't get to just decide they know best.