Having said alllllll that, I'm not without ideas.
Mine is about growing the sport with more men (in both viewership and participation) and younger audiences and rebranding it as 'cool'.
How? let the old guard continue to tinker with this outdated skating/scoring paradigm while we build a sub brand of figure skating. The concept is skating XGames, like what happened to skiing and snowboarding.
I would love to see a discipline of figure skating that focuses on "cool" moves, athleticism, daring, and innovation.
I would also love to see a discipline in which artistic coherence in the use of skating skills takes priority over difficulty, especially difficulty not directly based on blade-to-ice technique.
But I would still want to maintain a discipline in which blade-to-ice technical skills and in-air skills and performance skills are more or less balanced in determining results.
Let skaters, and audiences, gravitate toward whichever discipline interests them most, just as some skaters and fans love pair skating and hate ice dance, and others the other way around.
So XGames is about getting kids into the air asap. You learn a bunny hop and waltz jump before you learn a rocker.
That is already the case. In the US learn-to-skate group lesson curriculum, these beginning jumps are taught during basic skills classes (bunny hop) and "pre-freeskate" class (waltz jump).
Rockers are advanced skills that are first required in the US test structure on the novice Moves in the Field test, more formally on the junior test. Most freestyle skaters will be at least working on double jumps before learning rockers, or even brackets (intermediate test). Although they are welcome to include whatever advanced turns they're capable of in their programs at lower levels.
However, some degree of edge control including forward three turns and landing edges is necessary before waltz jumps and single jumps, for safety reasons if nothing else.
I've seen adults who try to teach themselves jumps on ice without having learned the basics of actually skating, and the results are not pretty and not safe for other skater on the ice at the same time.
You may be doing backflips before a camel spin.
No one should be doing backflips on the ice before they have good acrobatic skills including backflips off ice. However, if there is going to be an extreme skating discipline that's all about flashy tricks that can use two feet and don't need to use edges, then sure, gymnastics on ice could include backflips and not be doing classic spin positions at all if that's not important in that discipline.
Small ramps on the ice to gain air, maybe?
Keep in mind that small ramps on the ice would render the ice surface unusable for all other users.
This would require either
*separate practice times during which temporary ramps can be brought on the ice and affixed in a way that would be safe for the extreme skaters, and then removed in a way that would restore the ice to an appropriate condition for hockey, public skating, standard figure skating, speedskating -- with both the addition and the removal taking only a few minutes or else charged as part of the time the extreme skaters are renting the ice
or else
*whole separate facilities used only for acrobatic skating if they have permanent ramps on the ice
Either way, it's going to make access to ramped facilities scarce and expensive for the extreme skaters. If they can figure out a way to convert a standard ice surface into what they want and then back again in a safe and efficient/cost-effective manner, more power to them.
No artistic 'programs'. Footwork, spins etc can all be built in but you bomb around the ice building technical content to energetic music (that you're not interpreting, just adds ambiance).
This could all be part of how extreme skating competitions or exhibitions could be structured.
Give it a try and see what kind of audience it attracts.
For those with interest and talent, you can migrate them to traditional skating if they want to do this. They can catch up by learning their SS and fundamentals later on when they are truly interested. Don't scare them off by forcing this boring stuff on them as they enter the sport.
Again, the "boring" stuff is often necessary for safety before anyone should be throwing themselves into the air on skates.
Already skaters start jumping very early in their singles skating careers. Many young skaters love jumping best. Some coaches keep things interesting for them by letting them attempt jumps on a harness or otherwise start working on jumps they're not really ready for technically. But a coach who encourages skaters to jump up in the air and rotate and try to land on one foot before they have mastered the skill of controlling a back outside edge is courting disaster -- for more than just those skaters if they're doing it on crowded public or freestyle sessions.
There could certainly be a culture within the extreme skating discipline, or even within element competitions and programs at lower levels, that encourages energy and innovation rather than refinement.
Ideally, what we'd want to see is skaters with full control over what their bodies and blades are doing, choosing to use music and body positions and innovative moves that are fun and interesting and "cool" according to their own tastes and interests.
If they want to learn triple jumps, they're going to need that kind of control including tight air positions.
Young children's taste is probably not going to be "cool" to teen and adult audiences, nor will performances full of slow scratchy skating and lots of axels and single-single-single combinations be impressive to those audiences. At least for the young ones, the cuteness factor may offer some appeal.
But by the time skaters reach preteen or teen age groups and, for the talented and committed skaters who have already been training for several years, fast skating on edges with big double jumps and maybe some triples would be fun to watch, and even more so if they can do it to lively cool music, wearing cool athletic clothing, and include personality in their performance and some unique personal moves or variations.
How much to encourage the "cool" factor in a separate discipline in which two-foot skating, no-foot sliding, two-foot jump landings, gymnastics on ice, etc., are valued more than mastery of edge, or to encourage a cooler more modern aesthetic in standard skating competition is a question. Could both coexist?
If only the brass were as bold!! You need office space at the ISU! Stat!
you don't need to... the only back loading controversy is "Russian Zagitova".. 
