Just try and put an old fashioned real balanced GT in with 110km ITT in (prologue + 1 hilly time trial + 1 flat time trial) and at least 5 good mountain stages. I think the climbers forgot how to be creative because they are now used to waiting on the final 3km of the final climb.
They can't afford that luxury on an actual balanced route
They can't afford that luxury on an actual balanced route