Yeah, revocation is a hot mess, it's always been broken, and OCSP Stapling was our only hope -- but then most web servers (but not all! guess which one) dropped the ball. (Clients at least honored Must-Staple.)

Short certificate lifetimes is the ultimate way forward, and thankfully it's already available through Let's Encrypt, via the "shortlived" profile.

With a certificate that lives < ~7 days, there's virtually no need to revoke. Some clients/browsers will still move to revoke certificates within minutes or hours of their own choosing (see, that's the other frustrating thing, revocation is really just whatever you want), but I hope we'll only see that on internal PKIs, since doing that for public sites is essentially censorship.