Top 5 Reasons to Ditch First-past-the post

I like the spirit of the idea, but the issue is that experts on any single topic are a very small minority of people. It's not reasonable to expect everyone to do adequate research on everything and decide on a solution.

I've been thinking about this a fair bit, and the best I can come up with is voting for what result you want to see and on what timescale. Then you pass that on to the experts to make decisions that give those results.

Are you proposing a direct democracy? It's an interesting idea. Are there any existing examples?