If it makes money then it must be ok.
This 100% but I"m not sure it's ok if it's contrary to sporting integrity.
I get it now. you are frustrated about 2021 season. I think Verstappen deserved to become world champion over the entire whole season. With ridiculous actions by those same stewards that you criticized.
Yes the stewarding was inconsistent and terrible throughout that year. The two penultimate races were very bad and looked to be aimed specifically at a close season finish or particular result. That makes the money for some but for me not what I like to see.
I am frustrated by :
* 2013 pi-RBR-elli tyres
* 2014 turbo motors reg that became a massive advantage for 1 team. I was a fan of the idea but they needed to tweak the rules quicker.
* 2014 rule loophole for disgusting looking noses - the adapted rules but never fixed them properly until 2022 - even in 2021 half the teams had stupid thumb nose designs, looked dumb and were mostly slow.
* new A logo for
Fl - change is ok, I am not anti-change but bad design. the elements are all connected with same sized gaps - is it one A or is it three elemets rrl ?
* track limits - the rules have forever been the field of play, they might have tweaked the rules - or how they
say they will apply them - but it is still a mess.
* "cost saving" development restrictions that prevent competition leveling out.
* Continued trend to having single stop - single strategy races that become boring.
* Traffic paradise at end of Q1, and generally ridiculous slow laps on track to protect tyres.
* Drive To Survive - starting as a good entertainment addition with extra stories from some points of view, but it has evolved into a mess of dramatic fake reality TV.
* Cars that are way too big, too heavy and too fast
* DRS - I was ok with it for a long time, but now it's just sometime for commentators to complain about.
* Commentators complaining about things - just be more positive (not in a condescending fake patronising way).
* 18" wheels - good in theory, I was glad they would try it - but they look so ugly with the covers.
* ground effects disaster with the bouncing and not making following much better. The bouncing looked so bad it was like an absolute joke.
* lip service penalty that can be applied as CFD restriction for major breaches of rules. How do they even audit the wind tunnel time and CFD calculations? I think the answer is docudrama
Some of these are just historical points, but most continue to be a blight on the sport in my opinion, severely reduces my enjoyment and it breaks my heart a bit as someone that loved the sport so much from the early 90s to early 2010's.
To put this rant back on topic,
I kinda hope Max wins the rest of the races this year so I can just add "all of 2023" to my list of long-time-F1 fan frustrations.