During the debates we had we now know the general sentiment among involved parties is:
- Not all but most riders are interested in changes leading to more safety in the pro peloton.
- Some organisers do tend to care and are prepared to do something about it.
- Fans mostly don't care.
- UCI doesn't care or better, due to position they have, they are pro active in regards to supporting crashes.
So in this specific case your comment is perfectly aligned with that. So seem the riders sentiment, organiser is trying to do something, UCI mute. So yeah, still rather long way to go, before the meme nothing can be done crashes out in some corner. Preferably landing in a fluffy barrier. I mean the organiser didn't even opt-in to provide hot tee in the pit stop. Jeez.
The problem is that most people agree something should be done about safety, but they want it to be other people's responsibility.
The riders fly about like maniacs not respecting the courses, kamikazeing and divebombing corners without due consideration of risk, and expect the organisers to foot the bill for any changes needed to allow them to do that.
The organisers want to allocate as much of budget as possible to the route, prize money etc. to maximise sponsor and field rather than things like policing, barriers etc. so don't want to up the logistical and H&S budget and want the UCI to foot the bill for it.
The UCI need both races and riders as a key part of their value proposition, and don't want to alienate either group, so wind up making completely irrelevant, anodyne pronouncements that don't offer any firm or coherent action on either - and are far too reactionary, usually policing the outcome rather than the offence.
Fans want to be entertained and don't want races cancelled, but at the same time nor do they want to watch farcical spectacles like stages 2 and 9 of the Vuelta last year where the elites of the pro péloton are having a slow Sunday roll on perfectly safe roads while racing is supposedly still on, while the finish has been moved into a dangerous part of the course, or a future where every single profile is either ________ or _______/ and is only allowed on sunny days (but not too sunny in case of sunstroke) with temperatures between 16º and 24ºC.