The problem with letting surveyors vote is not the lack of maturity. It is the lack of experience in building and evaluating large scale buildings because they didn't built anything to get their rank.
Agreed, the OS are supposed to be more mature with desicions and choices because that what they are supposed to do, they should get to do their postion as OS to vote for the ranks, moderate chats, etc. But in some way to me i think this "Architect Vote Team" seems interesting and i feel like we should take into consideration but (then again im not a architect, this is only my opinion) some of the people that do apply have to wait a very long time and sometime the OS have a lot on their plate so, yes it would take sometime obviously but it think this could be a good idea.
I only think an Architect vote team should be considered because of the time it takes for an Architect app to be checked. As far as I know 3 apps still have yet to be checked.
I agree, parrit has been waiting 3 or 2 months now and i think ive been waiting 1 month now, there are others as well i believe.