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If you're so into engine sound and that's the reason you watched F1, there are better sounding racing categories out there.

The only thing I miss about the early 2000 era are the race tracks.

That famous Senna pole lap onboard at Suzuka has the best sounding engine ever for me. A true beast.

and the colorful cars. we had green, yellow, blue, black all in great liveries

and the colorful cars. we had green, yellow, blue, black all in great liveries

That's impressive and exciting but you do realize that's footage from the race not the pole position lap.

I don't know the statistics but I would almost 100% bet there has been more non DRS and non tyre assisted passing than there was in the 10 years leading up to this era.

Apparently it was necessary to get the race back in 2004. A stupid corner, only Montoya seemed to pass anyone there.

Traction control, ABS brakes, refuelling, grooved tyres, aerodynamic flick ups, skinny cars, no overtaking, oh and 1 driver domination
(Which yes, we've had since too but the racing behind the dominant drivers has always been amazing since 2010)

Nah, this was close to the nadir of F1 tbh, no wonder I defected and became a Champcar fanboy...imagine getting up to watch this then later on in the day a handford oval race, or road america 2001, Laguna Seca 2001 etc..
"Why, these cars look 100 times better and they can race 10000x better too....wat?"

Only time F1 was worth watching in this era was if there was a random safety car that threw everyones routine fuel strategy out the window, or rain.
Refuelling was supposed to spice up the sport but all it meant was all the teams followed the exact same strategy and had the exact same fuel load which caused the exact same tyre wear and none of that could compensate for the aerodynamic push effect through fast corners causing massive field spread after a lap or 2.

There might be a lot of bullshit problems off track in todays shitty F1 but at least when the cars are on track they pass and repass each other occasionally.
Heck, even most practice sessions these days are more exciting than races back then, with the on throttle oversteer and stuff.

Case in point: how much we used to dread races at the Hungaroring in the 90s/2000s and how for the last few seasons it has been one of the best races of the year.
That says it all really.

This is just your opinion. Stated as fact.

Artur Craft complains a lot about F1 2015 although admits he doesn't watch, but complains more about F1 2015. Awesome logic.

I'm with Phil and Paul, the negativity is utterly boring. We get you don't like current F1, but that's the only thing that's posted about and no-one is allowed to say something to contrary without being told they are wrong.

There is no overtaking that is free from at least one of these elements