You're right, snap decisions are the best... don't bother to get input or even really consider your options. Just flip a coin and yolo it, right?
Some degree of "do-ocracy" may be necessary - when you can't get the people to decide, sometimes the best option is just to announce a choice and see if people follow you. If they put up resistance, you can revert the choice and pick the other option. But it usually turns out that the ones most eager to continue debating are the ones who actually care the least, and will accept whatever decision was made.
Bike shedding is real.
We'd like to get some of the old logging bots moved over, etc.
We have some number of users who connect from tor, from matrix, or from webchat that simply can't move right now. These are things being looked at from the libera.chat side, but that work isn't done.
I very much value those users being able to continue to ask and get their questions answered.
That said, we used to have like 3-4 server ops lurking in the channel, and 15-16 channel ops that were active on the server. We just don't any more. This makes me rather concerned from a spam perspective.
On the other hand, there are < 80 people in the channel now, so perhaps spam is less of an issue now that we're a much smaller target.