The sequence (poll before proposal & discussion) two topics in this forum with almost identical titles, one with a second poll, have not been a good process. Here’s a late post on this forum, posted in the ‘wrong’ topic: so it isn’t clear if @circ has been able to vote in this topic, and there may be others. We’ve only had 25 votes so far, so a handful of missed voters would be significant.
I’m not sure the process is a good basis for changing something that works, and which none of the developers using this forum have raised as a problem AFAIK.
We don’t know what it will be like when masses of new people start flocking to the community forum, but some of us were moderators in the past when things were much more lively there, and we had many attempts to sabotage the forum and the community. Decentralising helps protect against this, and it seems ironic for us to be centralising unnecessarily.
I think we may well regret the change later, when it will be hard to change back with so much else going on. Things are quiet now. Do we really need to spend so much time on this?
I think we may have missed devs here too - only 25 voted so far - because many will come only when they need to, so maybe a much longer poll duration would be wise. A lot prefer to spend time developing rather than checking in here regularly.