Haha of course the Tour wants the latter, but the Tour has got nothing to say about it. And you saying the Tour has been entertaining = hilarious! Yeah I guess it's been entertaining for you because your boy hasn't been caught behind a crash and hasn't lost a bucket load of time already. For me the only entertaining thing has been Sagan, god I love that kid.
And besides, who says that with Alberto the Tour would've been decided by the first week? It wasn't the case in 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011! And Alberto would've been involved in one crash or another anyhow, so he would've lost time too. Plus there is only one slightly decent mtf in the first week so how Alberto should've decided it there, especially with the minutes he would've lost because of a crash... It's a mystery to me.
But you just hate Alberto and you try to redeem it with arguments that don't even make sense.
And to your original question, yes the Tour wants the latter, but seriously if the first is the price of entertaining, exciting, attractive racing then YES PLEASE!