Tim-
There is no sense in giving developers administrative
power.
I tend to agree, although I think it's not a matter of ability (I do not
share the "programmers are good at this, not at that" belief; programmers
are human beings like anyone else) but a matter of scalability. We can't
make everyone a developer for security reasons. Encapsulating community
functions like desysopping in the "bureaucrat" flag seems like the most
reasonable way forward to me.
That of course does not address the question what these bureaucrats are
*allowed* to do.
Regards,
Erik