I agree with your points, and when you look into rules on energy flow especially, you can see how elements of regulations work against each other. 50/50 power split fundamentally changes how you drive a race car.

• DRS was available at no cost, but increasing your deployment with Overtake has an energy cost and you will need to recover that energy or risk your opponent coming back at you.
• Overtake allows you to harvest 0.5MJ additional energy (baseline is 8MJ). Again, that extra 0.5MJ will likely compromise your straight line speed or braking, as drivers are already struggling to hit 8MJ. Any harvested energy comes from the 3000MJ/h energy fuel flow allowance.
• Battery capacity is 4MJ, FOUR, that's the same as last year! And it can barely hold half of your allowed energy per lap. This makes any macro strategy impossible, battery management is all about the next straight, you just can't sit in someone's slipstream and bank energy for 2-3 laps and wait for an opportunity.

That's exactly what Palmer said on the broadcast.