A brief, but very timely anecdote, Marco.
Yesterday I played Murcar, and the fairways of the course were that yellowy brown color that we F&F fetish people so love. John Kirk would have had an orgasm if he could have seen how far and frolickingly randomly balls travelled if hit reasonably well and reasonably straight. The ground crunched under our feet (or would have done so if any of us had been wearing spikes). That being said.....
1. If you happened to hit the ball very well and/or not reasonably straight, your ball would end up in places that no archetect nor any other evil spirit would have wished or designed that you go. Dante would have expanded his list of the top 100 circles of hell if he had been playing with us. And we were seniors!
2. Apparently the course was opened up a week or two ago to many of the leading junior golfers in Europe (Murcar is hosting the European Juniors later in the year), and the comments from the little nippers who could carry their drives 295 ranged from "twee" to "merde" to "flhywitzu" (not sure what this means in Estonian, and probably don't want to....).
3. As to your title ?, my gut feel is "roll back the I&B but increase F&F up to yesterday's "Murcar Meld" and both the geezers and the flat bellies will (eventually) be happy.
Ricardo