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.