One way of thinking about ignoring leap seconds is that it's like letting the effective prime meridian drift east/west. And a "leap hour" is kind of like a timezone change. In fact, you could just not have a centralized/coordinated leap hour, and let individual jurisdictions change their own timezones as they wanted, if they wanted noon to be closer to the daily solar peak.
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One way of thinking about ignoring leap seconds is that it's like letting the effective prime meridian drift east/west. And a "leap hour" is kind of like a timezone change. In fact, you could just not have a centralized/coordinated leap hour, and let individual jurisdictions change their own timezones as they wanted, if they wanted noon to be closer to the daily solar peak.