The SC incident with the overtake was the get out. They decided against it, so that result was prettyuch mailed on.
Really poor precedent has been set.
There was a chance for f1 to have this as a big statement race. Whichever way it went. Whoever won, there would have been no argument.
The first time in donkeys years the sport was actually exciting.
They chose to destroy that and fix it, in a blatant manner. Like. We are going to fix the result and basically tell you and let you see us fix it. Them we will double down, in the face of our own rules and confirm the fix.
They got it badly wrong.