Folks ARE whining for Bristol to get dropped. Something about attendance (which I don’t know why they care about, do they work for NASCAR?) and something about “Muh Entertainment”. Bristol isn’t the problem, nor was it ever.
“If he figures out the ovals” not to rain on the parade, that’s a pretty big IF. He’s still competing against guys that have been on ovals their whole lives, on a cup schedule that is still predominantly oval based.
I don’t hate this. It’d get all the jobbers off the track that always cause this crap at the end of races. Also fits in with the gimmicks like the bracket. But this year I will say the end of races have seemed cleaner than years past