Well in 2016-2018-ish there was a lot of slow gravel and a lot of complaining about adding more of that.

If we now get Estonia, Latvia, Finland and NZ are we going too much the opposite way?

Personally I miss more of the likes of GB and Chile with medium fast and slippery gravel. Om those there can be big swings between stages. Fast gravel is great to watch but without rain it often is the same story all weekend (road cleaning first, then minimal position changes and tiny differences).