I hate the direction racing is heading

For you personally no. You understand it fine and so do most people that really race. But the family that watches the shows on Discovery channel or the young kids watching YouTube videos of street racing they don’t get it.

With that being said, I could not tell you the last time I went to just watch a bracket race but I can tell you I’ve been to plenty of radial tire and small tire races in the last 5 years.
I was at Edgewater watching the small tire race last weekend.