The older I get, the more I'm convinced that the absolute heart of Caesar's reforms revolved around the land bill he tried hard to push through the Senate early in 59. By all accounts, it was a tremendously logical and well-written piece of legislation and the gods know, the republic had been TRYING to pass some kind of land bill, by that time, for almost 70 years (can't help thinking of health reform!) However, I think Caesar was, by this time, viewed by an opposition that was so adamantly opposed to doing ANYTHING he recommended that they were quite willing to destroy the land bill in the Senate just to hand him a defeat because his bill was untraditional (that also sounds rather modern!)

It was Caesar's decision to appeal to the Assembly that doomed him with the rest of the Boni. Now, others had taken that route throughout the decades when the Senate was adamant, but I'm quite sure no one foresaw that if they tried to gut Caesar's legislation like the Senate had done with others in the past, that it would boomerang in the way it did!

If I recall the sources, we simply don't KNOW enough about his precise reforms once he became dictator - those we do know of, sound needed - but the land reforms had been a literal crossroads of the Republic for decades and he was willing to do anything to force it through. I suspect from then on, there were many willing to bring him down no matter how sensible or needed his ideas were.