Ryan captures the core of the story here -- we are losing ball in play time to set piece preparation

and if that's not what we want soccer to be, aesthetically, I think it's time to start thinking about the rules reforms to bring optimal decision-making back in line with what the game should be

Someone doesn’t remember how badly going to a video store sucked, and just generally how much worse things were in the 90s-2000s. Oh, it doesn’t work perfectly? Sometimes they just didn’t have the thing you wanted. We live in an era of unprecedented media abundance and it’s has spoiled us rotten.