"The insane Electoral College system then of course needs scrapping"
What you mean is: that insane system of being a federal country made of individual components needs to be scrapped.
The US president is the president of the federation. The states are the members of the federation. The states elect the president of the federation. To change that you need to change the US to be a single unitary state, which overturns the entire foundamental foundation ethos of the entire country.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
