What we NEED to work on instead of eliminating protests, is to re-program the perception that protests are a hateful personal thing. It just doesn't need to be that way all the time.

Our local area used to constantly advise sailors that the RC doesn't want to see any protests. It took several years, but that has changed to "if you are involved in an incident and in the wrong, please be a good sport and do your turn. If we need to have a protest hearing, let's keep it gentlemanly".