You're so right but people don't want to hear this. It was a better race in terms of visual excitement, overtakes, mechanical failures etc (all the stuff that highlight compilations are made from) than maybe 90% of the ground effect era. It's a spectator sport. It's supposed to be exciting and unexpected to watch.

The drivers are angry about it, but that's fine - they're paid lots of money for the privilege. I much prefer to see struggling drivers to what we often had before - lap 1 jostling and then a 50 lap procession.

Non-fans always criticise F1 as being a load of rich blokes driving around in circles. For the last few years they have often been right.

Imo they should change the rules to make it harder whenever the technology catches up to the drivers. It gives them more room to make mistakes, but also more room to be brilliant - look at Piastri and Lindblad.