5. Perfect example of 2011 Tour disease, where a great finale causes people to forget two weeks of absolute nothing where two weeks in people were wondering when the actual racing would start. Recency bias is strong, remembering the otherwise pretty good 2019 Tour being downvoted because of a lame finale caused by the weather as well. But stages 16 and 20 were truly great.
"Two weeks of nothing" has gotten a surreal meaning these days. I'll grant that it was the case in the 2011 Tour but it was absolutely not the case in this Giro if you watched the race instead of just looked at the profiles.