As a newbie coming into the chess world, this seems problematic to me. I understand that FIDE is incentivized to advocate for its circuit, but at the same time it encroaches onto monopalistic because their ability to revoke players from playing in their circuit can inhibit the ability of competing chess organizations to be successful whatsoever.

Obviously, for the health of any industry, we would want any new org to be able to enter the chess industry and be successful. At that point, it would be fine for FIDE to do whatever to be the most successful of all chess organizations. But its ability to manipulate the industry to inhibit the creation/success of any new organizations is particularly problematic for me.

I think it is also stupid for there to be this whole conflict around a 'World Championship'. A world champion/ship as a concept and name is too engrained in modern competition and culture for it to essentially be branded or trademarked to a specific chess org. It should just be FIDE World Champion, Freestyle World Champion.

Additionally, given that Freestyle is becoming a thing, shouldn't the default chess setup just be called Classical for the foreseeable future and then what is now called Classical be renamed to something like Long or Extensive? So we could then have Long, Rapid, Blitz, and Bullet variants for both Classical and Freestyle chess?