Largely agree with what you say, but regarding negotiators... who will negotiate on our behalf? We are a decentralised community. At present dpos is the only mechanism to vote for representatives. Hence why we have witnesses "negotiating" on our behalf.

Moving forward it seems we should do something about DPOS so that one entity can't centralise governance of the chain. Maybe 10 votes only for 20 spots. So at most a central body could only force a stalemate, not a takeover.