Wouldn't it be great if you didn't have to vote for the least horrible candidate? If you could vote for who you wanted without feeling like you're throwing your vote away?
If we had ranked choice voting, we'd have better legislators in office to start with. And if they used it in the speaker votes this could be resolved already.
I agree, there's zero motivation for the democrats to throw a lifeline across the aisle, nor would such efforts be rewarded with anything but scorn and suffering.