I like the BIPs, I mean, as a way for discussion and explanations for where Bitcoin should go. BUT, just as Bitcoin kind of came out of nowhere for most people, so can improvements on Bitcoin. So this sounds good to me so long as it doesn't become this:
Again, this is awesome! Just don't want it to become a gatekeeper, you know. Umami is really cool, it's amazing the kind of stuff that's coming out in the FOSS ecosystem these days--I'm a Rails person myself, but the NodeJS options are incredible.