Your philosophy is clear and consistent.

However... what happens when you shift paradigms because the racing you describe is not that interesting. You have one boat and are also interested in setting point to point records or god for bid ... racing against other similar boats eg tornaods or F18's. Or simply want to get the best possilbe performance out of your platform by changing the soft stuff within a box rule set and what you get from X sucks and since its your money... you want something good... not just something approved. Now your hands are tied

So... since racing is a social contract... (we agree to race under these rules with a set of rules that specifiy equipment...) you have to do as Eric suggested... Do a lot of work to develop a community of like minded I20 sailors who organize themselves into a class write some rules and do some events under the new rules.

In the end.. its about belonging to the group and feeling the love....

the intermediate step is make your changes and play with the open class.

Eric suggests that if you take this on... you won't be feelin any love from Performance...