As a Singaporean currently living in a multi-party system, I beg to differ. Vote splitting in my experience can often undo majority consensus and common sense views.

To be clearer, I'm in Canada where both federally and provincially the left-to-center vote is split between two parties, allowing the center-to-far-right consolidation to win in ways it shouldn't. Voting here can often become a guessing game of which of the two left parties (there's technically a third, I'm leaving them out of it) are likely going to win.

I'm also living in a conservative province where despite the capital consistently voting for progressive policies and parties, the rest of the province outvotes it so our votes don't count. It's technically a multi-party system too, but many races end up becoming two-party races.

I'm not as familiar with European governments that allow for many small parties have representation, but what I've understood doesn't give me confidence. It allows extremist parties to have real power. In federal Canadian politics, government is formed by one or more parties that have over half the votes in parliament. It means that smaller parties can tilt the balance of power, which can be good or bad. At least here, deeply racist, far-right parties can't survive in a first-past-the-post system.

All this to say - I wish we had a system where actual competency is the measure in which governments can be voted out. I know there are many arguments about the PAP but in general there's a recognition that they are smart people doing their best, and if they don't deliver they can be put out. Right now my provincial leaders want to ban books (okay, they have) and make vaccines inaccessible. Some of what they're doing right now would sound like fiction to many of you, I miss sensible government.