You won't get much more focus on politically (in the context of the academia) popular topics, the existing system already imposes that particular bias exceeding

You won't get much more focus on politically (in the context of the academia) popular topics, the existing system already imposes that particular bias exceedingly well (how do you think you get citations?). But yes, you'll get more everyday human issues along with the judgment. In my view, that's far preferable to the existing situation, if only for the simple reason that the human problems will vary from place to place, whereas the existing system distorts virtually the entirety of academic research in roughly the same ways everywhere, to the uniform detriment of all.