Carl,

I think your question is very appropriate.

I would add yours to Paul Pasco's and add a few more impt questions.

Paul asked
Do we need a familiar popular boat that the rest of the world joins us in sailing... or do we hope the world will have the same passion for a new hot design cat and join us and compete in this new class?

In the past, the Tornado drove the progress we saw in the other cat classes. Will that be the case for Mixed multihull moving forward? Will the AC competition drive innovation? Will it be the commercial builders innovating?.

Will the Olympic competition of mixed multi's inspire the young sailors of the world... or will the AC cup draw everyone's attention?

In your for instances... I would step up a level.. It seems that you forsee an interrelated mission of Olympic Sailing and Class Sailing.
The USA experience with a small class is that the Olympic athletes call the shots, All class decisions must work for their campaigns or they won't participate. Just like everyone, they have time and money constraints and the ISAF circuit and training camps set the schedule.

So, I would frame it as;, Does the new Olympic class share a mission with the class of non Olympic sailors?

So far we have made two decisions. 1) It is essential to get back into the Olympics.... CHECK.

2) Any format that accomplishes goal 1 is OK... So, we have MIXED MULTIHULL.

Now it gets interesting!... Having caught the passing car.... the cat is now faced with what to do with it and for what end.