A major goal of the RFC process was to avoid badgering the larger, less-interested-in-the-sausage-making part of the community with binding votes on each line item. I think it’s our responsibility to come up with a proposal that’s complete, or at least nearly so, for up-or-down ratification.
I’m not sure there’s any such thing as a perfect poll to try to solicit community input, as supplying enough options so as to not be pushing a specific loaded agenda is at odds with settling on a clear consensus, but the purpose of the polls early in an RFC is to find what is broadly acceptable, not necessarily to hit 50%+1. We don’t necessarily need bottomless polls if we can read the room, and we’re already seeing considerably fewer voters in polls this deep in the thread. Unlimited mods has been consistently favored over a set number (which I find pretty surprising, but that’s why we do this process), and a requirement that someone other than the proposed mod do the nomination has never garnered any real support. People still have time to voice objections to the text, but at this point, I think the appetite for more granularity isn’t very large.