One thing is clear to me: whoever supports SoD is supporting quantity (which, undoubtedly, turns into quality over time). Whoever supports VT is supporting common sense. But such people, I'll repeat for the 100th time, are always in the minority in all spheres of life. People watch Eurovision with much more enthusiasm than opera, so what is there to say.
You are fundamentally wrong here.
VT has stalled, and "common sense" by definition cannot be standing still, as that is a path to nowhere.
SoD is developing, and right now it is exactly "common sense" to support SoD; that is what everyone is trying to express.