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It was a reaction in the main to Alonso losing the title by not being able to overtake a far slower car.
I think it's an exaggeration to say people wanted it because they thought there were loads of overtakes in the "good old days". The perception (and that's all that matters) was that overtakes pre-DRS were earned.
The issue with F1 and it's biggest one by far is the aero dependency and the DRS was a short term fix to get around that but, as usual, they've danced around the basic problem at the core of F1 so it's still here.
Being in front is so massively important in F1 becase the teams develop cars that run in clear air and lose out massively in dirty air. Only one can be in front so all the cars that aren't are at a disadvantage straight away. The DRS is a (poor) way of addressing that.
Of course what they should be doing is developing the rules so that a car behind can corner just as fast as the car in front or only marginally slower and then be able to use a traditional slipstream and outbraking move to overtake. I'm struggling to think of any other motor racing series where the car behind is at such a disadvantage.
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