Awesome that we get to discuss this again.
The unintended consequences will be rampant, but in the end, there will still be three basic categories of FRC teams at competition:
- top level teams, who work year round and take advantage of every opportunity and loophole available to win more;
- low resource, low knowledge teams, who will come to competition with poor quality robots, and
- teams who are willing to work ridiculously hard, but cant yet be called "elite" (if they ever get that far)
In other words, the rich would stay rich, the poor would stay poor, and a bunch of us would just keep chuggin'. So we might as well keep it the way it is.
My opinion.