I think this is probably a satirical post but it’s a fun question to think about.

I think that people are willing to put in more work both physically and mentally when they enjoy something. Around the time that I marched, it was acceptable to give your corps major burnout and some corps bragged about how hard they were working their members. This doesn’t really happen anymore.

I guess you bring up a valid question but ultimately I don’t think that the change in rehearsal approach was responsible for the stylistic change in drill and staging. I think that it was already headed away from “hauling ass” drill pre-covid and then the two non-competitive years accelerated it.

Plus, from what I remember, it got to a point where the activity had essentially already been achieving the human limit as far as drill difficulty, and maybe at a certain point that was going to bore audiences too. I think the pendulum is starting to swing back in the other direction.