It's easy to say apply the same standards as a buzzword, which undoubtedly they're trying to do to the best of their ability, but it's not like they get a batch of decisions that are exactly the same, they're still unique incidents otherwise we'd just have robots analysing them in binary. As fans we throw decisions together into these clusters that look roughly the same and that's good enough for us to make an inconsequential point. It's not very scientific, it's just "X happened last week and now Y has happened", nothing to do with overall consistency across a season as an entire body of decisions refs make and how that may or may not be improving ref standards over time. But could removing the clear and obvious stuff help? Maybe, you could have a point.
With regards to consistency, standards and VAR, I think we'd find it a lot different if we actually had to sit down and make these decisions, even in the VAR chair where people make out it's simple. You have a set of regulations so we think they can be applied with perfect uniformity, but they have to interpret them over the top of a specific incident and the devil is in the detail. They all have different speeds, different contact, different contact with the ball, different ref interpretation of the intent. With handballs it can be very difficult to interpret too.
Look at pundits and how they make a living hauling these guys through the streets so fans can throw tomatoes at them. Even they can't fecking agree on a decision and they are the "experts" that keep reminding us refs didn't play the game. They're the ones in their own VAR studio with no skin in the game, no jeopardy and they don't find full agreement. Do we really fecking think they'd reach the standards of consistency and the near elimination of human error that they expect? What does that tell us about the job if not that it contains subjectivity and human error, even from the studio nevermind the poor cnut with a whistle.
It's just a bloody tough job IMO. Especially on the pitch but also in the studio where the scrutiny is huge. The fitness required, barrages of abuse for simply doing a job, the scrutiny on every single aspect of your work, very few jobs entail that, probably even the footballers. I know it's reasonably paid but bloody hell, it ain't easy.