LogFAQs > #972441309

Here's a good example of why it's bad for the show - I'm not even as invested in who wins anymore, and while I'm still interested to see who comes out of the shuffle on top, it's more arbitrary to me because it's SO incredibly luck-based now. And there was always a degree of luck involved, right down to who is on your starting tribe (Richard or Brian would have had a much more difficult path to victory on the opposite tribe in their seasons). But every advantage that gets thrown in adds another layer of luck, especially when it's not even something you get to go looking for, but something another tribe picks you for and you have no say in it... there are still plenty of good players that get taken out early and we are potentially robbed of seeing them play well post merge and while a good early ousting of a great player can be fun and entertaining, I'd rather it be organic (either they overplayed and got caught, or they accidentally pissed off some psycho who then went on a bonkers crusade against them, something really entertaining) than the result of an advantage that the producers threw in for the hell of it.