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The trouble is, there are simply too many settings for the human mind in the heat of the moment to be able to process them all; the brain can only process so much at a given time. Simple as that. And the manufacturers won't willingly give up the potential advantage that detail customization gives them in terms of performance. Frankly, an engine without the electronics has nothing to do with any of the units they make anymore.
And thinking of Lando Norris, and others probably, it strikes me that the tolerances on current F1 cars are so tight that, by the time a mechanical issue reaches the level where human senses are capable of picking it up, it's already too late, and a car failure is inevitable. In other words, telemetry has become, by default, the only way to see it coming in such a way that a DNF can be averted.
And this stuff isn't going away now that it's been invented. You can't take that level of refinement out of the engineers' heads now that it's been learned.
And as for changing F1 and the resulting issues with lower categories, it's not so much the sheer amount of resources F1 teams are using; it's that if you slow F1 down by much, you have to slow down all those other categories to keep the existing pecking order of F1 being "the fastest", and therefore, "the pinnacle".
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