I love the dogwhistling from Lewis and Toto about how everything happening exactly as it should according to the rules this time
The funny thing to me is that this was largely an issue of incompetent and dare I say inexperience race control. Taking 65 seconds to deploy the SC, and then deploying it wrongly. I wonder how much Tsunoda's incidents last week played into this...maybe they hoped Ricciardo would get going again? Brutal race direction.
The best practice these days seems to be VSC until the leader is on the pit straight, and then to deploy the SC. Easy-peasy.
The great thing about VSC is that it has such a minimal impact to the competition. Cheap pit stops are a double edged sword - it can easily backfire, especially if VSC ends earlier than expected.