If that’s the case TJ, I’d be very much in favour of it.
The bottom line is I don’t understand it well enough TBH..
The thing is, you don’t really have to- the system in Scotland is complicated enough behind the scenes that most people haven’t a clue (I understand it enough to know I can’t be arsed to fully understand it). But voting is simple and that’s what actually matters. I don’t understand how my phone works either, I wouldn’t want to replace it with an easy to comprehend phone that most of the time phones the wrong person- the outcome’s pretty much undeniably better than FPTP.
(FPTP otoh is simple in how it works behind the scenes but complex in how voting works)
There are some things to dislike- mostly that the list system can be used to get people in who wouldn’t likely be elected as a named candidate for a seat (should a party, for some reason, want to have as one of their few representatives someone everyone hates- in practice it generally gets used to get valuable people like Ruth Davidson in. That’s obviously not all bad, either- it’s a bit daft when parties lose key national players to local votes, it avoids all the unpleasantness of carpetbagging etc)
But when you offset that against things like UKIP getting 12.7% of the vote in 2015 and a single MP, adding up to about 3 and a half million people whose opinions are ignored for that party alone, and the SNP getting 4.7% of the vote and 56 seats, well, it’s beneath trivial. (I hate UKIP and voted SNP, but that’s still obviously dysfunctional, and, well- undemocratic. Wrong)
