> The quiz thing is mostly exhaustion at the idea of people who don't bother to learn anything having a say.

I hear you, I feel that frustration as well. Myself, I've come the long way around to deciding that, those people need to be included anyway. And a robust system of democracy should work even with their input. Maybe at the lowest level, all voters get a "I'm happy"/"I'm unhappy" button, and signals of greater interest unlock more options and details. But I think gatekeeping is fundamentally undemocratic, and if you are going to make it harder to vote you need a better reason than "they don't seem to care".

We want more hands on the wheel, not fewer. If they don't seem to know or care, that's our problem, not theirs.