There are also ideological factors at play here. When GP is arguing for direct democracy they're not arguing for it in isolation, they're arguing for it as oppo

There are also ideological factors at play here. When GP is arguing for direct democracy they're not arguing for it in isolation, they're arguing for it as opposed to the political-economic system of today which they see as under the thumb of capital, which in part is due to the representative model. But simply removing the representative model won't rid us of capital's totality, nor its mechanisms (inequality through equality etc.)