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I feel like my point was missed a bit; let me repost a part of your comment with one detail (the sport) changed:

Anyhow, I don’t think there should be an “even playing field” because that’s not realistic. Where would you ever encounter a perfectly flat tennis court, other than at a tennis game? It would be fine if that artificial constraint led to more interesting humans, but it doesn’t. It leads to boring matches.

Does that illustrate better what I am getting at?