I've thought about this a lot over the last couple of months / events. Is WRC All Live really worth it?

How many people actually sit and watch it for the whole weekend? As in, every second it's online?

How many people find out what they need to find out about an event from it (as opposed to on social media)?

How much of what is being broadcast is truly interesting, breathtaking, spectacular stuff (as a proportion of the time it's on-air)?

How much do people enjoy seeing and hearing the same talking heads saying basically the same things event after event?

Is it really worth forcing events to follow an itinerary and timetable that suits being 'All Live', to the detriment of practically every person actually involved in the event? Are so many people watching it that it makes sense for crews to be in their cars for 12-14 hours some days just to do around 120 competitive km? That's before we even speak about the utterly mental hours some mechanics / engineers have to do...

Does watching hours of (mostly) pretty ordinary onboard footage with hardly anything happening, Julian Porter chatting over the top of it, and 1/100 stage end 'interviews' being of any interest at all, give us any more than rally radio and an hourly highlights / catch-up show would do?

Don't get me wrong. I like it, and I'm sad enough to have it running from dawn til dusk during events, regardless of my apathy toward the commentary team. I can understand the value it has for teams too, to be able to see in real time how their cars / crews are performing.

But... is what we have in 2022 any better than in 2012, or 2002, or even 1992?