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New methods for removing the sysop bit from admins are a perennial fixture at the Village Pump. Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship (WP:RFDA) lists many of these proposals; they seem to appear approximately quarterly, and they have universally failed to attract community consensus.
Any proposed process ought to consider – and, where applicable, to answer – the following questions.