Trying to provide high speeds creates many risks and vulnerabilities, Solana Dev team has tried to improve but it seems they still need more time and effort.
They need something else, but now way in hell is anyone going to openly propose it in public!
They need to change the leader election process and the validating consensus, so even in the event of a stop in the current epoch the election would go on and a new leader could get the work started, they need to fix the consensus, but fixing the consensus right now would mean...yup, centralization! And the Solana team will not make this step, no way they would do it since they already feel the pressure to divest from this path.
Let's see what the restart automation will bring, but it will again rely on validators consensus for a restart, I haven't gone though all the material there but a consensus between validators that haven't been able to reach consensus is a bit of mind boggling issue to me!
Honestly? I don't think it's that important. Why? How does it affect the price? Yeah, it could happen, no argument there. But if BTC is 70k tomorrow, without any kind of news, the price will give +20% from current values.
Imagine a pool rejecting blocks without a reason and Bitcoin dropping in capacity by 30% right now, we'll visit 50k faster than we revisited 59k yesterday night. And Bitcoin hasn't reached this TH without any kind of news, most like it has reached it without one single shred of bad news for months!