My reaction exactly.  I guess when one's lifetime viewpoint has been formed and informed by a single existing model, anything outside of that model appears unworkable and downright silly.  Whyever should 96% of the Church have any kind of say in choosing its leadership?  That anointed 4% certainly knows the best way to manage everything, from spiritual revelations to gross financial errors,  child sexual abuse coverups and misogyny...just look at their collective track records. 

How cheeky of any of us to controvert such a successful system!  

("Too much" education and incessant wallowing in "intelligentsia circles" must stifle any and all kinds of imagination and shut down all creative thinking.)