That is a terrible idea because I'm pretty sure (and you seem to know) it would lead to people showing a preference to unrestricted gathering. I'm not sure people who aren't ranked in DoL to a certain degree (beyond meaning to provide for their own crafting needs) and engaged in the actual selling of their goods are in a position to make an informed decision on the subject.

If you go back and look through the thread pretty much all of the high rank DoL are against this change. We don't mind changing something, already there have been calls for other DoL activities, removing the double penalty, and other less subversive changes. I'm not going to try and intuit specifically why you want the gathering to be unimpeded but serious if your only concern is to improve DoL there are other alternative ways to go about it.

Basically I don't think we should let every single aspect of the game be decided by demagoguery. More than having someone like Tanaka at the helm, doing that would really lead to the sort of game no one would want to play.