Yes but you're telling me about problems of FPTP we're already familiar with. FPTP is a bad system.

Guess what happens the next time after the vote is split between the shit incumbent and the better choice, electing a con - people go back voting for the shit incumbent that previously lost in the hope to not elect a con again.

Strategic voting (not campaigning) doesn't come from thin air. It comes from people's lived experiences with vote-split events that led to bad governments (for them) and trying to avoid that in the future.

Not running candidates in ridings where they'd split the vote is the only practical workaround I can think of that obviates the need for strategic voting. None of our parties are doing that except perhaps BQ.

Treating the FPTP as something that it's not is the worst option in my opinion. It's a shit system and the more people understand how it works and what outcomes their votes produce the better. Even better, the more people understand that, the more they'll demand a change to something else.

I don't know, that's my thought process and I don't think it's devoid of logic.