[ELMS] Should privateer LMP1s be reallowed in the Euro Series?

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Those of you that are forced to follow my ramblings know how much I've blamed 'the decline' of privateer LMP1 on ACO killing of them from the European Le Mans Series, and how much I've wanted them to reinstate the class back to the Euro zone.

Currently P1 privateers have to run in expensive global contest of FIA WEC, and nowhere else. They have a obscure, poorly contested sub class for some meaningless trophy that has no particular value, and no chance of competing against the factory cars on pace. And people wonder why the class hasn't took of??? With the reinstate of LMP1 (privateer) class in the ELMS, what you would achieve is

* Back to overall wins, overall glory
* Lowered budget requirements
* More universal accessibility for the class
* Could ramp up customer car market - AND engine with the spec-P2
* Still always automatic Le Mans invite (due to ACO being desperate for class to shine) so basically the same as WEC entry in this context

And of course you could still enter WEC P1 if you wanted, but this could be a viable market. With non-proam mandated driver requirements in P1 you could also help out that side as well, give the top class more credibility. Make the series look more "professional" and not so "feeder series esque" as side product!

Now, with the relatively good health of cost cap LMP2 formula, most people have attempted to block my arguments with the quality field over there and "maybe couple of possible P1 cars" perhaps harming that structure. Which I have not agreed with, but whatever. However, now with the inevitable 4 limited chassis manufacturers + spec engine nonsense coming up in P2, how can anyone try to serve the same argument? Who cares if some crybaby spec Oreca doesn't turn up when they're not allowed overall victory by default anymore? Sure, the level of P2 teams may stay the same, but with the ever more tamed and less variable machinery who should we really be rooting for? And even if P2 still holds up magic to you, what harm is there being a class over that? Other than the very very recent years in ELMS (and I guess the lamecluster Asian series and DP-politics-USCC), P2 has always served as second division category and as these figures here prove, the numbers in ELMS haven't even really changed since P1 was exiled! You cannot please everybody all the time, sometimes big decisions need to be made. Besides, if ACO really has another motive (besides pleasing off French manufacturers and cashing off with spec supply deals) in trying to dumb down P2 and therefore lure some teams and makes back into P1, why would they not attempt to reinstate P1 as globally accessible and viable formula?

There has been some recent interest from several parties towards P1, but with the things being how they are in the WEC right now it's still not the most attractive formula is it?

What say you?