I have to say that I'm happy that Ethereum does not do on-chain governance for this very reason. It more or less follows the IETF principle of "rough consensus". [0]

As far as smart contracts are concerned; they're hardly "contracts", but you probably already knew that. Even Vitalik Buterin regrets calling them that way [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_consensus

[1]: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/105116093269977088...