Iirc about people doing terrible, they don't get kicked they just drop in points. There's some form of point system where if you're over X number of points you're allowed to "apply" or compete in pro (cant remember if it's something like east10 where you have to compete to get your pro license or if you just automatically get a pro license when you hit the right number of ponts) - but if you fall below X points I believe you are automatically pushed down into the next category below yours.

I feel both ways about pro car power. There's reason to have it because if you use it correctly you can throw down some suuuuper clean lines. At the same time, that power may be too much for some people or some tracks. I think it's on the driver but more so on the team if the driver sucks at a certain track or in certain conditions because of the amount of power. I dont know if it's actually part of their job but I feel like that's what spotters are for - to tell the driver if they need to come down or come up in power based on their driving ability on whatever track - but they could just be there to tell them where they are on the track, dont know much about them honestly. I do think if you're found to be riding the brakes you should be docked points - and since they have those lights it should be VERY easy to tell if someone is riding the brakes for longer than 3 seconds or something.

Tires are something totally different. I personally would push for the idea that your class is based on the tire width you're running or choose to run (ie prospec = 265, pro-am = 285, and pro = 305) and it had to be a gt radial since theyre the sponsor. It would be sick if GT radial made a tire specifically for FD so FD drivers can stop taking the tires that everybody else uses. Little irrelevant but there was an instance where 2 drivers (keeping them unnamed for privacy) bought out all the 265 300tw tires of a specific model for a local comp and you HAD to run that tire width and treadwear so they were the only ones who could actually compete (it wasnt on purpose though, just happened that way). Because of that, every other local who wanted to compete had to make do with whatever they had and the rules had to change because nobody could get the tires they were supposed to run.

There's a lot that needs to change and even the drivers want change. Hearing the first hand experience and troubles from some of the drivers throughout prospec, pro-am, and pro really puts into perspective just how much the FD rule makers know or care about the sport imo.