I've watched ALL of the games in the last 18 months
They're stale because the quality of teams are so varied, there's no close sets because of this.
I don't know what spice you think KT has added as all the players currently playing KT are fking garbage and don't know how to use the racial, sure this bracket needs excitement but the excitement isnt including a dumb racial that completely disregards any need to practice beating a gauntlet, yes you can play around it, yes you can search for stealthies but the fact that you can play well and set up a gauntlet for the last 1-2 minutes for it to be undone by a druid that dashed up roof before your team is dumb and shouldnt be encouraged.
Not sure if you skipped over my original response to the updated rules but you should check it out
Still waiting for you actually address my points against the racial instead of just saying 'stale meta lol'