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No, Chaynes, just no.
The braking zone into Verrerie is substantial enough without slowing it further.
The run into Hotel isn't long enough anyway, so tightening Verrerie would just make it worse.
Tightening Hotel and realigning the whole series of right-handers like that will just cause the cars to spread out more as they exit onto the Mistral. So, again, it would be counterproductive to the aim of increasing overtaking.
The relatively smooth flow of the corners, and the lack of any ultra-slow corners, is what led to the lower degree of separation between the cars that we saw in the opening number of laps under green. Tightening corners, especially with how they tend to profile "modern" corners, can only result in more rapid field separation.
If your goal was to get by without DRS at all, the only possible option is to remove the Mistral chicane and reinstate the original Verrerie, so that the cars go flat-out from Pont to Hotel.
Often, corners that basically require panic braking because they're so tight aren't actually that great for overtaking. And as far as kinetic energy in a braking zone goes, you get the same reduction going from 210 mph down to 117 mph as you do going from 180 mph down to 45 mph. Simply put, you don't need the ultra-slow corners to have adequate braking zones for realistic overtaking.
Given the insane acceleration of current F1 cars, they're following about as close out of Pont as is physically possible. That is, if your nose is one length behind the leader's tail at corner apex, these cars go from 50 to 150 mph so quickly that you're suddenly five lengths off his tail, but your time gap is still the same. The problem is, the effectiveness of the slipstream is heavily dependent upon the physical gap between the cars.
So, to have a major impact on this, you'd have to artificially hobble the acceleration of the cars (and by that, I mean, tampering directly with how the engines deliver power and torque would be required in order to make a sufficient difference in this area).
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