Lootman wrote:... and in the end I feel sure that most here can learn to live with any reasonable comprise or change that is adopted.
So do I - with the emphasis on "reasonable".
As an analogy: if I were a member of a chess club and someone proposed that it should also be for the playing of other board games as well, was willing to co-operate in working out which ones would fit in and which wouldn't, develop a proposal to put to a membership vote and to accept the result of that vote whichever way it goes, going elsewhere if it was turned down, I would regard that as reasonable.
If they instead marched in and started loudly proclaiming that a broader range of board games was the way of the future and what we wanted, disregarding any other opinions, and additionally chose to do that at a time when the membership unfortunately couldn't be polled, I would regard it as most unreasonable.
Unfortunately, the impression I'm currently getting is closer to the latter than the former...
Gengulphus