This highlight again how the whole "world tour" licence thing has been a nightmare for cycling : 4/5 years ago you had teams fighting for all the UCI points they could get so they could be promoted or stay in the early WT. Teams like AG2R used every loophole possible, recruiting the winner of the Asia tour to have enough points, etc... it was already perverse.
Now it has become perverse in another way : the WT calendar is bloated and the WT "league" has actually increased differences between rich teams (Sky, Tinkoff, Astana, Movistar) and others that just manage to get by and actually just toss to the bin a good third of the WT official calendar, sending whatever end of the bench they can find on many races.
The elite should be a lot smaller and determined not by a licence but by some sort of results based ranking that would ensure the best say 12 or 14 teams are sure to be invited in the GTs and big races, but with many more wildcards, there would be more teams aspiring to play at higher level and getting invited into the big races. I'd rather have say a first tier of 30/35 teams of which the best 14 have garanteed places and the other get invited : more Wanty Gobert on Paris Roubaix and less Lampre Merida, etc..