The repreentatives to an Article V come out of the same pools of local political parties as those who end up in DC.
How anyone thinks that the A-V representatives would be of higher purpose is unbelievable. Most of those calling for the A-V claim that the problem is with the political party members in DC.
Once an A-V closes its doors, what kind of compromising and deal-making will take place? No one knows. Defenders claim that the states could reject their results. Why would states reject the result from the political representatives they sent?
Even so, the state legislatures would then vote on the resulting amendments.
Notice that ‘the people’ or ‘the citizens’ have no bearing on this. The only involvement they have is in the state legislators they elected. They have no say in the contents of proposed amendments or in the final state votes on the results.
The advocates seem to think a better set of politicians will represent them in an A-V than the ones they send to DC, when both sets come out of the same political party cesspools.
If you trust no one, your only option is the status quo.