at the beginning of the stage 1, there always is lot of major changes queued up. It never lead to unmanageable amount of "breakage and disruption".
Other people have a different perception than you do.
As for constructive suggestions -- why not just forget on whole plan and let the things work out the way they always did? As you say, there is no perfect solution, so why to complicate people's lives with trying to get one?
I can't say I found it incredibly thrilling to try to work out the project ordering, and I certainly have plenty of other work to do. If there's consensus that this was a bad idea, I'm happy not to do it again. However, one person has already said that they found it valuable.
I think it's a little early to start the post-mortem. Perhaps in Stage 3, we could have a better discussion about how well this worked out. Or, perhaps it will become obvious before then, one way or the other.
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