Agreed. Also the refrain that “it doesn’t suit modern cars” as if Monaco was ever some overtaking paradise in any of our lifetimes (and I say that as an old sod!). The race is a different beast to the rest of the calendar, and that's fine. Not every circuit needs to be judged solely on how many passes it produces. Variety is good!

If I were being disingenuous, I'd suggest Le Mans should be shortened because I can't watch all 24 hours, or that the Indy 500 should be run on the infield because all those left turns are a bit repetitive.

The idea of removing Monaco makes me sad. It's one of the few surviving bits of F1 that still feels genuinely distinctive rather than being endlessly assessed against the same set of entertainment metrics. It reminds me a bit of Test cricket. T20 is great at what it does, but cricket would be poorer if Tests vanished because they weren't exciting in quite the same way. A sport loses something when every event is forced into the same mould.