Being centrist doesn’t always mean being mealy mouthed
Sometimes it means simply not falling for BS.
Much of the debate in the public square is between the far extremes of an issue.
The center is often not some mealy mouth average of them.
Rather, the center is the stance that does not fall for one or another cognitive bias or irrationality.
For example, I’m stuck in the middle in all of these debates below. How about you?
I am all over the place on those questions. On average in between. Some veering right, some left.
Your debates are all gibberish. The opposite extreme from the "open borders" position is obviously "closed borders", not "illegals rape". Nobody is debating the percentage of illegal aliens who have committed rape, but it's clearly neither zero nor one hundred percent. That is a question of fact, not opinion, so no debate is needed - research would suffice to answer the question with high accuracy.
In reality, it is almost always an extremist who advocates the best position on a serious issue of public policy. The centrists are generally either mealy-mouthed or ignorant.