I made a quick and dirty prototype that can help visualize how it would behave:
I believe Nick’s proposal satisfies the initial demands of delegates for more detailed expressivity but with simpler rules. If this idea had been presented first, I find it hard to believe we would even consider switching to the much more complicated amendment presented at the top of the thread.
The process isn’t a jump the shark but rather the proper way a debate should happen: delegates asked a feature, we came up with a solution, then it became optimized and streamlined into a simpler solution