I think there might be honest people there who might be afraid to speak up.

That limit must be back, changing POW will not bring anything good. You can see what is going on with coins, if it can be mined by gpus/cpus data centers will own it whenever they want to.

Getting away from Bitcoin (legacy chain) is exactly what bad actors want. They also creates illusion that everyone is a bad actor. I think you might feel the same way as I did at the end of blocksize war.