I agree with your general sentiment tbh. I think VAR has its use but the refereeing bodies just went OTT with all these new rules. Something so impactful needed a much more careful implementation (like the Word Cup 2018 where it was much better IMHO). For offsides they need to be less anal about the margin and introduce a tolerance level. Biggest issue is by far the handballs, why make it so complicated for defenders ?
Offside is a tricky one, for me they should be left to the officials because we don't have the technology to definitively prove offside to the smallest possible margin (which is what we bizarrely set as the target for ourselves), so we are having to rely on referees interpretation anyway.
Personally I would remove offside and handball from what is reviewed by VAR. Put the responsibility back on the officials for those.
I appreciate the latter would effectively render VAR useless, but it would improve the game entertainment from where we are now. No doubt about that in my mind.
If you look at the vast majority of goals disallowed by VAR, I believe that prior to VAR very few of them would we have been
that unhappy about being given... Let's use the Bruno goal that was disallowed against Newcastle as an example, Mata is slightly offside when he plays the return pass for Bruno to smash it top bins. Now personally, if that goal was allowed against me if I were a Newcastle fan, I would not have been up in arms about it. If Mata were a few inches further forward he would have played the same pass and it would have had the same result, it served no benefit to us as the attacking team for Mata to be slightly offside in that move.
To me that's a prime example of an excellent goal being chalked off for the sake of it, because with this technology we've now bound/committed ourselves to take every rule to the furthest. possible. degree. When the reality is, prior to VAR, we wouldn't have thought that was a disgraceful decision to miss that offside and for the goal to stand. And it works both ways, we've had the rub of the green with VAR as well as anybody, it just doesn't sit right with me, I don't think it A) Improves the game. B) Get's everything correct.