DRS keeps getting all the blame for "overfakes" as some people call them. I agree that a lot of passing looks too easy for the faster car.
But the hybrid system is just as much to blame for this as the DRS, if not more. The slightly faster car just follows behind to regenerate electric power. And it can regen more than the slower car. Then when accumulates a power advantage , it just deploys that power and blows by the car in front. And the slower car is depleting power to stay ahead. And this is why cars blow past each other. But everyone sees that DRS flap open and blames that.
I think this is also a huge contributor to the domination we seen in the Mercedes era and now.
All the available electric power should be the same for each car. And the power could be stored for a set push to pass deployment that is the same for everyone. This way , Max wouldn't have any more electric power than anyone else. Then we would see closer racing and harder passes. And DRS would just be there to even out the dirty air.
Some will argue that this is spec. But it isn't. If someone has a better ICE, they can still profit from that.
And this is set to get worse in 2026. 2026 might be worse domination than we've ever seen. Then what ?
This could also be why Moto GP doesn't have nearly the same issues of bad racing. Despite being a prototype series.