It doesn’t help to pretend the status quo works for a majority, when we all know the status quo helps just a few. So many democratic voters are afraid to criticize the leader of the status quo party, but the leader of the party deserves to be criticized.
If you pretend the status quo is acceptable, if you try to convince others that they should accept the status quo because it could be worse if the other status quo side wins, you do no favors for those that the status quo punishes.
There is a litany of problems with the status quo, and if the current leader of the status quo doesn’t seem to want to fix anything, why should we expect the next status quo candidate to fix things 11 months from now?