So... you will just swallow what ever the selection committee serves up? I doubt that...
You may be right about the arrogance of the ISAF selection committee but that would be a tragic.

This game is ALL about buy-in and enrollment for the ISAF selection process.... not just for multihull sailors in the rank and file f but also for the rest of the sailing world in order to support Mixed Multihull saling. No support by the monohull guys will get you isolated and dinged again. (We have tried life as the red headed step child.... 8 years in the wilderness is the result.)

If ISAF and the MNA's ignore the community... they won't get much support down the road. Just ask the US cat sailors if they believe that USSA Olympic supported Tornado mulithull sailing. How about the sailors support for the ISAF junior boat...the infamous SL16! Benign neglect is corrosive...Do we have a viable youth program? Do the US cat sailors support the Pan Am teams then and now? How about ISAF F18 Championships? Surf city correctly decried the balkanization of the US sailing scene.

The ISAF multihull selection committee needs to bring the WORLDS multihull sailors along with regard to the selection criteria and forge a consensus to support the new Olympic Class and use the Olympics to further the popularity of the whole discipline. If they screw it up with the AC on big cats... it will be a greek tragedy! Failure to do so will mean another orphaned Olympic Class. No additional countries will be driven to compete in Mixed Multihull. You won't find the volunteers to set up a training pipeline to encourage and support young sailors. Ultimately, you are set up to be bumped again.

Paul Pascoe gets it... Hopefully the rest of ISAF and the MNA's will as well.