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I am in much the same position. It does stand out that in recent years rules were changed in season to reign in advantages that some teams had created, often more than once. As things stand the rules look like cementing a daylight gap between one engine supplier and the others for a period of years.
I am no great fan of "Parity" formulas but some element of Mario Kart style "Rubber banding" where the ones with the biggest disadvantage are given opportunity to catch up a bit needs to exist. Who apart from Mercedes fans would want to watch three, four, five years of the rules ensuring that Mercedes romp off into the distance and a minor scuffle breaks out half a lap behind them to see who gets to stand on the bottom step of the podium?
Quite apart from hoping to see an Australian lift the big cup, I did not find much sport in the RBR dominance, and even that was patchy. It was pretty obvious that the car was aerodynamically brilliant over a period of years, but very sensitive to disturbed airflow so if you were not out the front romping away you had no huge advantage over the next comers. Just look at the couple of times Vettel was not in his customary "out in the clear" position and looked like he was sulking in the mid field, unable to get up to cars he would normally be streaking away from.
Regardless of the fact that Mercedes did an undeniably brilliant job of the power unit and did a better job than the others over the break on updates something needs to change when even a decades long die hard like me can't be bothered staying up to watch.
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