According to @deanmlittle, passive validators enable unilateral protocol control that can entrench conservative limits such as 1MB blocks, making upgrades harder. Source: @deanmlittle on X. He calls for more opinionated validators and rejects default easy approvals to avoid governance capture. Source: @deanmlittle on X. He adds that for proposal 228 to pass, designers must improve quality rather than ship weak implementations. Source: @deanmlittle on X. These remarks put validator governance and upgrade design quality in focus as key variables traders track during protocol change votes. Source: @deanmlittle on X.