Overall ERC(R5) in it's current form is pretty much pointless, which is a shame.
N.O.T's Village nobodies are the only ones who are going to be having a change against Lukyanuk who is going to take the whole cake piece by piece, unless he somehow manages to drop it on the ground (or focus in WRC2).
Most of the current hot under 28yo R5 drivers are currently driving in WRC2 and it leaves drivers like Loubet (if he does the whole ERC calendar, I haven't checked), Ingram who was surprisingly fast here (Does he even have a confirmation for whole season?), Griebel (who is really struggling with the Peugeot), Koci who has driven mostly in Czech's championship to have a change for the title.
But all of them need to show their speed against Lukyanuk and the village nobodies to show that they have the speed to compete in WRC2.

Atleast ERC3 has something good going on for them. Opel factory team + village nobodies and other young talents trying to prove their pace in R2 which I think is better than WRC3 (not counting few of the JWRC drivers).