LogFAQs > #969832467

I don't think the gap in quality is all that big.

Qatar have been the only truly abject team in the tournament, and even that's been a massive underperformance from where they were a few years ago. We'll definitely get more worse teams on average, don't get me wrong, but I think the 3 team groups will make it more uncompetitive than 4 team groups would. 3 team groups will have very stark differences between the teams, compared to 4 team groups where almost every team faces another that's comparable in quality.

My biggest issue is that New Zealand will practically be guaranteed a spot in every World Cup for the foreseeable future.