Thanks for the continued coverage, @Scoresby! Great write-up.

Actually, I was thinking of “we” here as all of us, the self-selected participants of the BIP process.

Also, slightly embarrassing, your post here made me notice that BIP 2 actually already stated:

After working on BIP 3 for nearing two years, I thought that this section was something that was introduced in BIP 3. So, I was incorrect, when I stated that BIP 2 doesn’t specify how to activate process BIPs. Thank you for surfacing this. — Luckily, my proposed approach is compatible with BIP 2 either way.