Yes, I think that's why the experience from other jurisdictions is really important. This is the fear in the U.K. as well. They thought, "Oh boy, we're going to get swamped with these kinds of things that nobody really wants debates that are frivolous".
The evidence there is that it has been working for three years. They too have a 100,000 person threshold, but they have 60 million people rather than 35 million, so it should be easier per capita to have signatures. They've only had just over 20 hit that level of 100,000 signatures.