OrangeR and DK just don't get it.
While both of you thrive for more realistic and difficult physics, you both fail at acknowledging that running S3 or Rx tires on any car will make any easy and this is where GT5P had it wrong to begin with. Put any street car on R compound tire and you won't even be fast enough to warm them up. S3 tires are basically cut slicks, you should not have been sliding all over the place like it was pre-update with any sub 500hp car.
The only thing that I'll give to your ever continuing rant is that PD made one mistake, and that was to not update the online races to reflect the more realistic tyre feel. The PP is also messed up and there should be restrictions as to the cars you can run in 750PP.
PD even put in a disclaimer when you put tires that EVERY car in the games come with VERY high grip tires and that the experience resulting of such is NOT going to be realistic.
You're your own problem, PD could have made it more obvious, I'll give you that.
I'm glad to read that we are starting to give something back instead of just take "sides" blindfolded on a situation. That is a better sign than start using terms "like those people don't get it", or "you people have a problem". That means that we are reading what other people think and a more helpful and productive effort could be obtained. Thanks for reading my opinions.
Now I'd like to clarify my "position" on the matter. GT series has been for me at least a very special game, it is a type of game I like to call aspirational, I played the game since GT1 on an mac emulator with a keyboard until I got myself a PSOne and a dualshock, Then PS2 and a DF wheel. Even though I played the game much and with different ways of controlling it one thing got evident for me, if I wanted to keep playing the game I had to put a lot of work on it, I had to learn to take better lines, I had to moderate my inputs, I had to restart oh so many times the same test to pass it, I had to drive a 24 hr race for god sake! If I wanted a certain car that was not available any other way (Ok I could do it on B-spec, but that is no fun)

Then I wanted, aspired, to get all gold on the game, then make all 200-spec races, then have all the cars, then drive without end the ring, on any car combination available and yes test the cars on every tire compound, every time harder and harder.
GT games are ones you put a lot of effort and time, where if any lesson you could get out of a mere game and apply it to real life it would be never give up, effort pays, if you want it work for it. Now, with GT5p the challenge was up to par with the next gen of games, there are still events that remain a true test of talent, effort and patience in the offline part of the game. What has burned MY fuse is that with the addition of online to the game, instant gratification is taking every time more and more importance than the core particularities, in my view, that made this the most popular and loved racing game EVER. I for one never thought that the previous physics (tire simulations) were perfect, but they sure were challenging, true to the GT spirit as a game. Perhaps now the tire simulations are more real, true to life. I don't know, I should be a pirelli engineer to know for certain, but they are easier to handle, I think you can agree with me on that, this real feel perhaps is true to the sim spirit of GT.
I really think that GT has turned his head too much to make online game competitive (RBE, classes, etc.) I think we can agree on that too. I think PD has to make a more balanced approach between game/simulator simulator/game for the final GT5. How would they'll do that, I don't know perhaps not even they. (could this be the reason for 2010 release?) Anyway that is my rant, as you put it, I'd prefer to call it my opinion: I'd like to have a GT (GTsim+GTgame) that challenges me and amuse me on every aspect of it offline or online. A driving simulator that makes a hell of a game, not just one that let's me have podiums on any dream car I could think of fresh out of the wrapping packetI'm no Senna, no Fangio, I know I have to work harder, there are other games for that, think of the Hamilton game to come from EA, not my loved GT.
Thanks anyone for reading this, specially you Div because I'm sure you'll do it. 👍