Then from there, in my opinion, we can lower the bar, leave things as they are, or continue to pursue this everyone's an admin!!! deal.
If we want to lower the bar, we have to work out how to do it first. RfA doesn't use set standards, everyone decides based on their own criteria. Hundreds of possible replacements for RfA have been proposed and rejected, so it seems consensus is for a promotion system at least closely based on RfA, which makes lowering the bar very difficult.