If you mean the “have to go to camp thing,” agreed.
EVERY TIME I think I’ve saved my kids/parents a few bucks, BOOM, gotta do this, AND we’ve raised the price of nationals $30 a head.
ETA: back to your point about tick tocks. They were legal in AACCA 20-ish years ago. They came out when NFHS agreed to the “switch up,” which progressed to the “low to high,” then to the twisting switch up, then to the twisting low to hi; and as we haven’t seen significant injuries in those skills, I believe high to highs are the next logical step. I think, as opposed to having isolated statistics from individual skills, it’s much more efficient to continue to do these trial runs over a year or two and allow skills gradually. The rapid changing of rules in USASF, has been one of their downfalls. Plus, who would track every individual skill? Lastly, this is much more like what we see in Varsity sports like baseball: I remember when they developed the NOCSAE standard for catchers equipment. It was at least a three year period of working old equipment out and new equipment in. Kind of, “let’s make sure we are headed in the right direction before we dive in head first.”