This thread will be branded as reactionary by the forces of change that for whatever motivation want to modernise the TT.
Unless there is some very pressing, local, everyday reason for the realignment it seems to me this is a retrograde step which will further dumb-down the TT.
I suppose it gets down to who is running the show?
Like F1 used to be run by various countries as GPs now it is "managed" and is on the brink of being manipulated out of existence.
A stronger stance is required by those who "own" the TT when "consulting" with the ACU.
In any field of human activity if you give the "Regulators" an inch it just seems to go to their heads. (If I may mix the metaphors for Mr. Foster)

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
Nelson Mandela (1918 - ),