Since the user in question was unregistered, it reminded me of this post: Let's require registration to ask a question. I'd say score 142 (+150/-8) is unusually high for meta discussion. (But this one probably attracted enough attention.)
@ArthurFischer I take this answer by Shog9 as "will happen, but not before the login system is redesigned". Fine with me. — user147263 Nov 19 '14 at 4:04
So I take it the only think to do about this for now is to wait patiently. Is that so?
Or maybe to phrase it another way: Has the position of the overlords changes since the answer from 2014 which is linked above?