I find that I still have a lot of ability even though I'm not an admin. ANI, AIV, db-whatever seem to work pretty well in having admins do work for editors. And I can use non-admin rollback thanks to my monobook, so I guess life is pretty good. I applied to Adminship awhile back, failed, oh well. Life goes on. It's an encyclopedia anyway, not an MMORPG. We don't seem to have a desperate need for more admins, or a huge problem with many corrupt ones, so I can't see why the system will change very much.
Ikiroid