This is for the miners, people with more knowledge about the inner workings of Bitcoin than the average user.

The advice for users is wait until we have a definite dominate blockchain and continue on as normal. Users do not need to downgrade, upgrade or do anything else. This is a miner issue.

Very little that has ended up replacing the status quo has done so without growing pains.

Very little that's actually in the status quo doesn't have similar problems. Their problems just don't get widely reported.

What exactly is your criticism? Does that procedure sound too complicated to you?