My opinion is that we keep everything as it is right now.
I have many reasons for this, but the most important one is because the current system promotes moderation.
The point of restarting the RP is for everyone to have a clean start again. From what I remember and from what I've heard in the past, the former RP was all over the place. You had tamers with 6+ mega level digimon walking around, cities being torn to pieces by ONE digimon, and no real control or idea about where everyone was going. I was only a part of that for a small amount of time and I ended up just doing my own thing and ignoring everyone else because it was easier to just RP my own story then follow whatever over the top thing that was happening.
I'm not saying that now there wouldn't be any control over that, but the reason I personally enjoy the current system is because I like structure. I like having to "level up", complete missions, and earn my digimon's digivolution stages along with other digivolution options. It really gives that RPG feeling and having the freedom to create our missions makes it even better because its not a main story that I'm following, its the story that I am creating for my character.
You guys already changed the RP system once to make it easier and less complicated, but I really think that the way the RP system is now is just fine. If you guys give a more "relax" system then its just going to turn to chaos again.
The only reason this RP system feels like its failing is not because the mechanics are complicated (they're not, they're simple and easy to understand). The main reason is the inactivity of the RP mods when they put out a DRF official mission. The players grow bored when waiting weeks, close to months for the next update on a group mission. Looking over the past official missions, its easy to see this pattern of endless waiting even when the mission is close to completion.
I don't know if you guys have received complains about the RP system, but this is just what I have noticed/experienced with the current RP. I understand that RP mods have their own lives, but the reason we have more than one RP mod is because the others should be able to pick up the slack in case one RP mod can't make it.
So I believe the only problem is time management (a struggle for everyone, myself included). Changing the current RP system is not going to fix this problem and I'm afraid that giving players TOO much freedom will just return us to the times of the old RP.
I don't want there to be a time skip either. I didn't come to RP to read about the events that happened (this isn't a history class). I want to experience these events, have my character participate and not just push the arc aside when it has barely even started.
Well this is my honest opinion about the RP. Please don't change it again and instead focus on keeping a continuing flow so that players won't feel like they're stuck.
If anything needs to be added I would say that maybe the inclusion of Warp Digivolution or Slide Digivolution with some restrictions like maybe you can only slide digivolve once per battle or the most levels you can skip when warp digivolving is two like Rookie => Ultimate but not Rookie => Mega.
Anyways, I hope this helps in some way =D sorry for the wall of text ^^;