I understand your points however I feel you are looking into the past regarding past champions. Looking at this years champs and the future it is only going to become a more extreme version of what it already is. Only 3 flippers entered. No crushers or axes because they stand very little chance. This is what i feel we need to change. We need more diversity.

Look at America and at is where the sport is going if the rules don't adapt.

I think it's a case of it's very easy to produce a good ram bot or spinner. We need to do something to encourage a variety of robots to compete and make it easy to produce for example a crusher which is competitive.