It would certainly tend to get the Congressional wing of the party and the President in sync.
The Democrats seem to have more of a problem with this than the Republicans.
Possibly, but it appeared to me that the reason particular Senators and Representatives were chosen to be superdelegates in 1984 was because they supported Walter Mondale, rather than
that they were Senators and Representatives that just happened to support Mondale.
Dukakis had enough delegates in ‘88 to win the nomination without the superdelegates. Mondale did not have enough in ‘84.