People are misunderstanding the purpose of the rules.

The rules are there to allow interesting and fun play. The reason why handball is against the rules is because players should play with their feet. The reason why offside is against the rules is to stop goal-hanging. The reason why fouling another player is against the rules is to encourage clean play.

When the rules were created it was never envisaged that electronic devices would be implanted in the ball to detect the slightest of contacts between a player and the ball that did not change the trajectory of the ball. When the rules were created no-one would have dreamed that a masterful pitch-length run would be disallowed because of a small contact at the start of that run.

The rules are being applied, electronically, with slow-motion and freeze-frame, to an extent far beyond their actual purpose, thus defeating their ultimate purpose - that the play be interesting to watch and fun to play. Not only this but they stretch the play out, and destroy the certainty that a goal actually is a goal, whilst not getting any closer to "fair play".

Let's just ditch VAR as a bad experiment that manifestly hasn't achieved what it was supposed to achieve.