This has a certain "better late than never" quality to it. We seem to be blowing past the public comments (with one rather notable exception...) on our way toward a revised and presumably final proposal.
It's rather sobering to see the first effort in making sense of the public comments come as we are into the second and final reading on many of the recommendations. Perhaps "sobering" is not quite the right word. "Daft" comes to mind, but that may be too harsh and a result of staying up too late.
Regardless, we have to be careful that we let the process dictate the result, rather than vice versa.
Greg