I got accustomed to the new WR system. Initially I thought it was idiotic. But as soon as you accept it's not meant to faithfully reflect who's the best player, or who's the most likely to win the next WTTC, you should come to appreciate that
1) it has possibly made pro tours more interesting to the viewers;
2) it does reflect who had the most success in ITTF events over the past year (++, with grand slam events); let's get real, this is highly correlated with who's been the best over the past year.
You can only get so many unlucky draws, and if you're really among top players you should be able to get through on average. If you don't play it's your problem, not the world ranking's. Maybe the new system is particularly inadequate to judge player's strength beyond WR 100(?), or whenever the requirement to play many events and the randomness introduced by the draws start to kick in badly, but many of us don't care much about the world ranking beyond the top 20 or top 50 anyway.
The old system had flaws too, it was a bit too conservative, like many association's national rankings, and this is equally annoying.
