I take issue with them trying to make the races more interesting in the middle of the season, because of declining viewers and ho-hum races, first it was the blown exhaust , then the Frics system, now the manual starts, it leaves me wondering how much in season meddling is acceptable.
Yea sure. I'm mostly against mid-season changes, too. But my reasoning for that is usually because technical regulations mid-season often have the effect of compromising or benefitting certain cars/teams. That probably isn't too much of an issue here. The cars still all have the same start systems as before, so nothing has changed on the cars, necessarily.
But I suppose if one team was especially good at analyzing the data and configuring an optimal bite point for race starts, they might suddenly lose that advantage. I haven't necessarily noticed any big trends with that, though. Ferrari have typically been good off-the-line the past few years, so maybe them? Mercedes have been bad the past two races, so maybe they'll benefit? I don't know.
I kinda agree with you that I don't like midseason changes, but the changes would have less of an effect if we waited til next year. So I'm at least interested in seeing how it plays out. Between the tires and DRS, if a car has pace, they should still be able to make their way back forward at tracks that aren't Monaco or Hungary, so I'm not sure it'll have a dramatic effect on the final results of races, but it could make the journey of getting there a bit more interesting.
I don't know. We'll see. It may turn out to be something that doesn't make much of a difference at all, especially with everyone on equal footing.