TED, since you've asked all of us, I would prefer to vote as soon as possible on the elimination of: ownership, A.11 and A.10. I would also suggest that 11 and 10 not be put on the same ballot because I am not confident that the majority of members feels that goals (10) are as unimportant as the committee thinks they are; but I am pretty sure that all of us would like to get rid of the article that is redundant in its entirety (11).
If it were up to me, I would probably put the two no-brainers on one ballot and the elimination of A.10 on a ballot of its own - both votes to run simulataneously - so that members can discuss whether goals have any practical use to us.
Simplification of A.4 is important to Eru and I have no objection to doing that first. I agree that it is not controversial and should go quickly.
I do not agree, though, that A.3 will go quickly, and since it has no immediate impact on the community my recommendation would be to do it after A.5 rather than before.
All IMO, of course.
How many votes you will actually need depends on the complexity of the proposals you come up with. Hard to predict in advance how it should be done. If you really feel that holding too many separate votes is burdensome, I think my recommendation would be to go straight to A.4, finish it, and then put all three of those relatively quick votes up at one time, as three separate ballots voted on simultaneously [ownership + A.11 -- A.10 -- A.4]
I wouldn't mind waiting until A.4 is finished to vote on the hygienic stuff, but I'm afraid if you save up all these votes and run, like, 10 all at once, it will be overwhelming for the members. Not to mention the fact that composing the actual ballot takes some time and it will be a huge job for the committee at that point. My suspicion is that it will not be practical to put all of this on one ballot for the reason you've suggested: the baby may well go out with the bathwater and your work will have been in vain.
Again, all this is IMO. Committee has to decide what it finds most practical .... just, you know, think about the practicality for the members as well.
Jn