The problem with F1 now is that there are too many street circuits, too many tracks where overtaking is difficult, too many silly rules and too many races won by the pit crew rather than the drivers.
I don't see it that there are too many street circuits (apart from Monaco which is just a joke) it's not the tracks that make it difficult it's the rules which as you say there are too many of them, but there has to be lots of rules are F1 teams will bend any rule up to the breaking line & beyond if they think they can get away with it to gain an advantage.
They were completely different incidents and I think the stewards got the Vettel/Hamilton one wrong and the Leclerc/Verstappen one correct.
My view is they got Vettel/Hamilton correct, Vettel lost control of his car, he left the track, rejoined & gained an advantage by doing so, i.e. he maintained the lead, hindsight is wonderful but what he should have done is once back under control, ease over let Hamilton through then blast past him on the straight. Regarding Verstappen/Leclerc I don't have all the data but to me there is a moment where Verstappen takes a small amount of lock off to ensure that he hits Leclerc but he may say that was just a correction because he was sliding, Leclerc made an error he didn't expect Verstappen going for the gap from so far back.
Verstappen is Senna but Leclerc is Prost.
This is so true, a bully Vs a nice guy
The rule (amongst others) says it's an offence to crowd an opponent beyond track limits.
That's the rule. It's what happened, it wasn't applied.
But what happens if the person being crowded deliberately puts themselves in a position where the pusher has no choice?