I’m more in the camp of we half-assed it. Strong state? Cool, let’s downgrade the federal government to “economic block” instead of “republic”. Strong federal? Great, why are we letting 50 mini-governments screw over our citizens?
Having both lets bad players point at others and declare it’s their fault.
I do think strong federal government is gonna be inevitable, because they won’t give back power they have, but I’m not cheering it on.