@lime Assertions that strategic voting incentives are not important but that the 100% passage of mutually exclusive criteria (in which it's agreed that all are important but passing them all is impossible) is required, are wildly out of touch and outdated.
More likely they are linked to the RCV lobby's campaign to sabotage STAR Voting for Eugene, Measure 20-349, which people start voting on this week. (see pgs 9-26)
Getting a 99% on a criteria like Favorite Betrayal is not a "dramatic criteria failure". Balancing mutually exclusive criteria like FB and LNH is common sense.
In STAR, in practice, a voter should give their favorite 5 stars, their last choice 0, and show their full honest preference order between the candidates who are at all relevant. In order to argue otherwise a faction would need impossible polling data in near tie scenarios.
Arguments like these are the reason voting reform is still in the dark ages.
The argument that many prefer Smith//Score (good luck with that level of complexity in the real world) or plain Score goes to show that the war between ordinal and cardinal methods is still alive and well.
When will we stop ignoring the forest for the trees and recognize that both have important pieces of the puzzle and that a hybrid approach like STAR makes more sense than telling people that their concerns are invalid.