The route doesn't look good at all, we can all agree with that, Romandie has that identity and thats fine for me. Don't mind the double TT when you consider the rest of the stage races where we don't see too much of that at all.
The bigger problem for the race seems to be that they really can't draw the best riders anymore for various reasons, but then again, its perfectly fine (to me) to have a big race like this contested by 2nd tier riders and younger lads trying out in big WT stage races where they actually have a change.
Its just Romandie being Romandie, now minus the Giro contestant (and that has been a case for a while now) and the big Tour riders who has other priorities, be it either participating in the classics like Pog after a hard spring or Jonas' razor sharp focus on July. And what does racing hard in Romandie in *** conditions exactly do for you if you wanna win TdF? Not much, lets be honest, it most likely is for the worse and there are more important things to do in exactly that period in the season.