A +1 win and a +11 win have the same outcomes (absent court fuckery, which is still possible).

The gerrymandering will still be a problem over the next 2-6 years if the Dems look like they've done nothing, and everyone forgets that the problems with the Republicans don't stop with trump.

Because people are pissed off in unity now. Complete r control of every branch of government and the rot was apparent.

But what happens when data centers have a lot of hurdles, lawsuits and roadblocks cause of dem laws (which they should, ftr)? Stocks for the tech giants go down and the entire economy may see a downturn since we are living on the falsities of their current claims and expansions.

And when there is an inevitable record long gov shutdown causing pain?

It will be fresh in minds that a historic blue wave happened and then bad shit happened. People will lose context and motivation since there isn't a unified party to hate.

Not saying it will definitely happen, but very easy to see a lower turnout with trump not on the ballot and what I mentioned above, then the gerrymander all of a sudden has it's intended effect

Let's be honest, a ton of people voted based primarily on current gas prices.

Just because that sentiment overwhelmed the gerrymandering yesterday doesn't mean it will in the future.

Dem Pols: "Nah, We already have a system that works, we just need to make it work in our favor."

None of them care about "equitable representation" for us, they care about winning, and retaining power.

It would need to deal with compactness, too, to avoid biased centers, of course. It would need some parametric tuning, but the tunable parameters should be rather restricted to avoid gerrymandering again. Although any working algorithm in that direction would be way better than those rather "artfully designed" ones the Republicans have drawn.

My favorite strategy for reducing the effect of this is large districts with multiple reps per district (ideally with a form of rcv)

Yes it's still possible to introduce bias, but it would make a big difference on the ability to gerrymander, because you don't have he degrees of freedom to stack voters in the same way.

If you're into maths and want to know the theory behind it, it is based on the Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension of the shapes used for distracting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapnik%E2%80%93Chervonenkis_dimension . Not a fun read! But accurate

Tell me how to perform the miracle of finding a human neutral party. I think the only solution that is truly neutral can only be a technical one here.

a truly independent body

Get back to me when you've found one.