totally agree that there doesn't need to be a single approach to soft forks, as seen with segwit and taproot using different mechanisms.

I guess what I'm getting at is that many plebs who run their own nodes don't know how to make their opinion heard in the consensus process. All I see is a cacophony of opinions online, but no sense of how popular any proposal actually is. If there was a way to gauge people's opinions of BIPs through highly visible polls I think that would be a good thing.