@ScarDuck14 100% on all points, but I still think it's better lol. I'd rather AI I know I can race with fairly if I choose not to take advantage of vs having AI that'll just send me to Narnia the minute I try a legit pass. Same as I also prefer to have race starts where I can choose not to go for the crazy divebomb or weaving around like a lunatic on the motorway towards turn 1, and instead treat it like reality where the real guys would be thinking about staying alive 😁. I have my fingers crossed so far that although I have found this big disparity between quali and race settings, it seems to be a very consistent disparity meaning each race weekend I can choose a number and be fairly sure it will be pretty close to what I want each time. Unlike F1 22 where if u didn't already know the different tracks AI behaviour you could end up choosing the same number as the track before and suddenly be miles ahead of at the back getting destroyed.
Honestly, unlike last year, they could literally put a patch in to just shift the AI speed relative the number on the screen by about 6 levels either up for quali or down for the race and it'll pretty much solve the problem. No track by track adjustments really needed.