The two matches that this very thread is about between Shaw and SVB are a perfect example. Shaw won the first set they played because of his break. Shane could have been twice as good at pocketing balls, playing shape, playing strategy, picking patterns, etc, and it wouldn't have made any difference and he still would have lost. The exact same is true in the second set where SVB won. It wouldn't have mattered how much better Shaw was at every other skill outside of the break he could not have won that set. The break plays way, way, way too much of a factor in todays game, more than all other skills combined.
You AREN'T going to convert me to your way of thinking, no matter how much you try.
I like seeing multiple "packs" just to see how far they can go before they give up the table. Their opponent has the "same" opportunity to run "packs", if/when they get a turn at the table. If they don't capitalize on it, so be it.
9-ball has been "bastardized" too much already. Make your own game of "equal opportunity" or something of the sort. Make them take turns shooting a shot apiece and they play position for each other, with the option of passing the shot back. The first person to miss loses.
9-ball needs to revert back to the "old school" game with push outs, IMHO. There is more strategy in that than there is in one-foul BIH where they just break out the jump cues and pogo over balls all the time.
Everybody wants to change something that has already been invented. They don't necessarily want to change it for the betterment of the game, they just want to change it so that "THEY" have a better chance.
I don't mind losing if somebody puts multiple packs on me. If they do it, they deserve to win. I figure I have the same opportunity to do it back to them if I get back to the table. That is why I like longer sets because I expect people to run more than one rack at a time...myself included.