Can you actually provide any citations to support your position? I only ask because in my experience the BCE/CE notation is really quite common and has been used in the majority of scholarly research I've read (well the majority hasn't mentioned an era at all, but what does uses BCE/CE). I am aware that it isn't so universally used in all fields, but I was taught the BCE/CE notation in grade school... Perhaps this is just because I am in the United States.
Your rewrite makes it sound like it is only used by an insubstantial minority.
In any case, the arbcom isn't and shouldn't be deciding if we should use AD/BC or CE/BCE as it appears the larger community has decided that the issue isn't currently clear enough and we don't care.
So why does web of knowledge throw up far more results for BC than BCE?