Please don't shut up, and thank you so much for bringing this to the game's attention! The whole modteam will confer for a few days on this idea (we're a rather thin bunch spread across dramatically different time zones, else it might be swifter), and in the meantime encourage other players with ideas along this line to pitch them in this thread!

An anon player recently gifted the modteam a paid account (and a huge, grateful shout out to them!) so we may implement its polling feature about a few options for a mechanic like the one you've made mention of.