The rules package released by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) Sunday isn’t perfect, but it is a step in the right direction, McCarthy skeptics achieved significant concessions, and it is time for them to declare victory and move on.

Most prominently, McCarthy’s detractors have won a reduced threshold for a motion to vacate the chairmanship, a mechanism they view as a tool to hold any speaker accountable to the caucus. Democrats had required a majority of a party to trigger a motion to vacate vote, and McCarthy has agreed to lower that threshold to just five members. That’s a big win.