Great post with lots to think about. I do think this proposal is a step towards finding the answers to many of these questions. I also agree that editing the original proposal was not ideal. I have not interacted with Hive blogging before and have certainly made mistakes. I think a counter-proposal system could be implemented in the future to allow a new proposal to supercede an old one (resetting all votes in the process).
Thanks for the thoughtful post it really puts into perspective the problems ahead of us.