My biggest issue is that you don't see people who want to increase the skill ceiling get in the way of people who want to decrease the skill floor.

The opposite is not true.

When anyone tries to increase the skill ceiling everyone immediately goes to "think of the children(skill floor)." when it has no impact on the skill floor other than distancing itself further from the ceiling.

You are upset because of the preconceived notion that by increasing the gap between the skill ceiling & the skill floor that the class will change, that how you play at the floor will change or become less accessible, it won't but you wouldn't know that because your skill level has only been at below average for the past 8 years. The only thing that will change is now more people will have fun and they'll know you have no idea what you're doing.

People like the ones I'm describing get in the way of progress simply because any change at all could only be bad for them and they don't care if other people aren't having fun.