I’ll go and sit on the side that would prefer loose horses weren’t galloping around.
It’s acceptable to those of us that follow the sport, but to the ‘once a year’ or ‘casual’ spectator, it must look chaotic and amateurish, like something out of a Carry On film.
If we’re talking optics.
The only positive I take from it is that it negates (to a certain extent) the argument to the casual viewer, that horses are forced to jump by a man with a big stick, when clearly they are making that choice themselves.