AI creates efficiencies to unstable technical debt (what you just said).
It’s being relied on by reasonable engineers who have no choice in order to make deadlines or hit arbitrary ai usage policies and don’t have the time to review the output due to managerial pressures. And embraced by subpar engineers who don’t have the skill to properly vet the output.
I fear a spec series is the only way to stop team dominance. It’s only been 1.5 races. I suspect even the yo-yo racing will stop as teams figure out how to optimise energy deployment. Then it’ll just be the same F1 we’ve had for years of qualifying then a parade only interrupted by idiotic Ferrari strategy.
Except qualifying will be less interesting because they can’t even go all out for a single lap to get the best time. They have to lift in corners to recharge.