Alright, I can get onboard with focusing on increasing the transaction per second rate. Celo’s TPS is determined mostly by single threaded execution performance.
There’s a separate proposal in the short term to increase Celo block gas limit to address TPS: Propose to increase Block Gas Limit to 35.000.000 gas - #2 by diwu1989
I would be very interested in running validator in your new testnet with the new concensus algorithm.