Instead of it being a current duchy, would it be possible to make it so anyone in the realm can protest dukes? After all, if the issue is with one duke with only a few knights who support him in his duchy, making it so only the duchy can protest really does nothing.
With all due respect, if that version is implemented I am going to quite playing alltogether.
In my opinion the royal duke problem should be handled on the royal part. Have them banned still, which forces them to form their own realm creating more tension.
Protesting people out typically removes tension within a realm, we should strive towards more tension, not less.
Also this whole "duke protested out" think will just screw over smaller realms even more than ever before now that every position can easily be taken by a small group, or leave a situation where anyone who becomes Duke is protested out emediately, as with a government, effectively just destroying the realm.
