I think it’s worth being aware of lock-in effects; while I agree that it’s unproductive to put down alternative approaches, it’s also important to do what we can to avoid locking in a suboptimal choice- if Ranked Choice gets locked in over Approval Voting, and if Approval is actually better, it may be very hard to change it in the future, leading to much long-term disutility, perhaps even more than if the shift away from FPTP takes a little longer in the process of getting it right.
But I do agree that bickering and putting alternatives down probably isn’t the best way to mitigate lock-in
I think it’s worth being aware of lock-in effects; while I agree that it’s unproductive to put down alternative approaches, it’s also important to do what we can to avoid locking in a suboptimal choice- if Ranked Choice gets locked in over Approval Voting, and if Approval is actually better, it may be very hard to change it in the future, leading to much long-term disutility, perhaps even more than if the shift away from FPTP takes a little longer in the process of getting it right.
But I do agree that bickering and putting alternatives down probably isn’t the best way to mitigate lock-in