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Guaranteed DRS passes required so much special skill. Sure, sure.
Leclerc has the same car, deployment programming, etc. as Hamilton but Leclerc got past Hamilton and hold him off (before the pit stop). It was a great battle between these two and the one who managed the situation better came out ahead. That's racing.
Ever since the very first F1 race, drivers relied on good cars. That a part of the overall package is engineering by the teams is nothing new. In fact, if you dislike that aspect, maybe F1 isn't for you.
There are plenty of spec / BoP'ed series around the world. I follow WEC and DTM, for example. Many people rave about the racing in IMSA's Mazda MX-5 Cup which streams for free on YouTube and IMSA.TV.
I don't know if you are aware that this regulation has the same shit, only much worse. Drivers 1 second behind have extra energy deployment+recharge over the whole lap. This IMO generates a greater speed delta with respect to DRS, which is why you see the constant position swapping.
Except it's much better, not much worse. DRS led to guaranteed passes (unless there was a much worse car behind, then to a guaranteed DRS train). The current rules lead to wheel on wheel action.
If you don't like it, again: Watch something different. Those series exist already, I gave a couple of examples. Making F1 into yet another one of those would make little sense. Just be careful not to follow IndyCar or Super Formula because both have push-to-pass.
It feels like you are insisting that F1 should be free of criticism? That's literally all I'm doing, agreeing that those overtakes are simply yoyo due to the car behind being given a massive advantage, and that driver skill is less important now.
As a sport, I think F1 sucks, but as a spectatle is somewhat great. As an engineering competition is very amazing
EDIT: gotta admit that Ferrari battle was pretty fun to watch, made me dislike the regulation a lot less.
Criticism is fine, I do it myself plenty. You naysayers want to turn F1 into something it never was.
Again: Watch something else. Nobody's forcing you to watch something you hate.