Until we have a body that can be elected and recalled, I would personally prefer to see the optimizer in the hands of management with pilot input.
We're already optimizing to Nth degree - so what will change? Cost has been our number one concern - what would change?
On the other hand we've seen clear evidence of bias from pilots and even memos stating as much.
Pilots are greedy (for instance, The "crack *****s" in SAN will tell you that LGB pilots want to get into the hotel business) which is why there must be some mechanism to make aspiring pilot-managers answerable to the pilots they serve.