Always an amusing topic to me, and ever more so as I age.
Ironically, I played a two-day tournament at Mid Pines and Pine Needles this week, which are about as “classic” as it gets. In my division of the tournament (Super Senior/65+) we played both at around 5500 yds, +/-.
The first day at Mid Pines, ONE player broke 80, with a 78. Scores were better the second day at Pine Needles, probably due to less wind, but +10 won gross, and both days had a +3 PCC adjustment in GHIN.
So forgive me if I can’t get too excited about changing the golf ball because of how far Rory McIlroy hits it compared to some fat guy prior to titanium and the ProV1. And graphite. And Trackman. And the weight room. And video. And perfect course conditions. And great coaching. And so on…(I don’t see that as a “problem” anyway, but I get that others do.)
If you want to argue for bifurcation, have at it, though simplistic solutions to complex problems generally fail miserably. But (and forgive me for saying it) a universal change to the golf ball to reduce distance, is just a really, really dumb idea lacking any rational expectation for benefit to the game.