Yeah. I agree that amending should be hard, it shouldn’t be subject to a simple 50%+1 vote count. But a supermajority should be enough. What we have is ridiculous. A supermajority of support is nowhere near enough to pass an amendment. It’s leading to the Supreme Court accruing more and more power in what’s becoming an unaccountable superlegislature. Ironically de facto giving the power to amend the Constitution to a *minority* of voters.
Consider that no amendments are currently being held up by a small minority. Congress simply isn't proposing amendments. And most likely amendments on current issues would fail to get even a simple majority of states to ratify.
The hard truth is that most amendments that get discussed today are around issues with no level of national consensus.
