[dragonwriter]

> All to say that, while different methods for representation should absolutely be considered and discussed, it's important to remember that none of these are a panacea

Well, other than that more proportional results, by whatever means, seem consistently across modern democracies to provide government with which the people are more satisfied, and also provide a higher dimensionality to the range of political ideas and debate. (See Lijphart’s Patterns of Democracy.)

Every options has positive and negative traits, but single-member FPTP districts are about the worst, on balance.

Well, worst would be that plus having districts that don't even try to have similar population, so that the results are even less proportional than you'd expect with FPTP in single-member districts.