Because we want to pretend like they're innocent little dummies who mean well and aren't blatantly selling us out.

Look at every single conversation in leftist spaces about ranked choice voting. There is a resounding consensus. And then like our wish for a rolled up newspaper, we wish for RCV to already be in place. They absolutely know what we want, and they're playing games trying to appease their donors too.

(No, I don't believe a significant number of people support score voting and not RCV)