It has to be entirely intentional to keep it opaque and ambiguous, it will not change until they are forced to change it.

t has to be intentional because the FIA know that any such ambiguity or lack of clarity in the rules governing the design of the car are ruthlessly exploited by the teams as soon as they are spotted, and the FIA often react quickly to it with TDs and the like, why should drivers be any different?

With football refs if the ref does something so obviously wrong and it results in a result being changed, that ref is at real risk of punishment of one sort or another. Its rare that we ever see that with F1 stewards, Herbert was the last guy to get punished and that was for talking outside of school rather than a mistake with a particular ruling, as contentious as some of those were.

It just feels like they are equating controversy with rating, so have no incentive to sort it out.