Not many of us want to waste our timeThat's not because the current pop growth rate system. That's because you are overdeveloping your advanced industries without having the basic industries to support them. It's like having 100 oil refineries and only 10 oil wells. Now, not all of that is your fault. Part of that is the current pop demotion mechanic is bull-crap. For some reason it takes zero time for miner to be educated as a scientist, while it takes forever for the scientist to realize that his field is over saturated and he needs to find employment elsewhere. Your economy is imploding because you have too much high tech industry and not enough low tech industry. That's not a problem which will be solved by faster pop growth. Maybe they'll fix the job selection system later, but right now I suggest that you don't build new buildings/districts until you have unemployed worker pops.
We want a game. Not waiting simulator.
In fact you need a lot of pop for it. Also ai cannot do anything, really need fix too.