In my view accepted means anyone that cared enough on a topic to review/comment/request changes agrees with the change. I have not seen anyone rushing anyone to respond. Quite the opposite. Enough time must be given, I agree there.
I also think no one would object if someone came posted “Give me a week to process this. Or two.”. We are all reasonable enough to tag anyone that may have missed it.
One of my design doc PR (JSON output) was closed because the discussion showed that its a bad idea. So I would count that as rejected design doc.
And I am glad I closed it, as it may have been a slight improvement to the status quo but I would now spend my days trying to find which package supports which encoding in each language. And if someone comes in 2 years and says: “Hey why dont you have JSON output” we can point them to that discussion.
Sebastian also had 2 attempts for the parallel stuff that eventually led to reduce_sum which is awesome and I think the users like it also. So that is a huge win for design docs and whatever we call the process we have.