I don't understand how this keeps happening where certain people get all this free marketing and mysterious drum-up, and then their panacea is frigging Instant

I don't understand how this keeps happening where certain people get all this free marketing and mysterious drum-up, and then their panacea is frigging Instant Runoff Voting. At some point the discussion is going to have to evolve past IRV. One thing to remember - ranked choice voting is just the UI/UX. It doesn't mean you have to count it IRV style. The IRV zealots know this, which is why they re-branded it to name it "Ranked Choice Voting". It's a weak method. And Condorcet is not complicated. If one candidate would beat all others head to head, that candidate wins. It's only the tiebreaking methods that are complicated, and ties (loops; smith sets) are rare in large elections. Much rarer than additional-round Instant Runoff scenarios. There was a long discussion just a week ago here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18391757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18391757) on voting variants.