I was left thinking. (And maybe this should be moved then to yet another thread.)

Could you - or anybody - can come up with a good (as in realistic and pragmatic instead of idealistic) proposal on how to 'do' community input regarding the new UI?

... What exactly would you input on?
... How would the UI turn out differently?

I'm not trying to be sarcastic here, at all. But it's... the more I think about it the harder it is for me to come up with decent answers.

I'm now discounting the alternative of "just show the whole plans"... And even without discounting that: if we would show the whole plans, and then get n comments on it, ... Would following the democratic majority of the developer community lead to an optimal solution in terms of an UI solution? Wouldn't that be the worst kind of "design by committee" that one could imagine? Do a poll for "Feature X, do solution A or solution B" and vote which solution gets more votes? No?

It's an interesting topic, anyway.