Ahhh, more damning Haas with faint praise, it's easy for me to believe many pay lip service to their success, but deep down were really hoping for failure, spectacular failure.
So what that the tub comes from Dallara? They know what they are doing, it's public knowledge they build it, and it gave them a way into F1, and the agreement is within the rules. It worked out for everyone-including F1 on the whole, as having a US based team can't hurt market penetration here.
Everything about the partnerships that Haas made was smart, efficient, and forward thinking. Sadly, because they are US-owned, for the cynics it's all about how they loopholed their way into the midfield, as if somehow the rules got changed for them. If a UK based company/personality started the team, I feel the conversation would be entirely different, the F1 press would be gushing for this THIRD YEAR team that posted the FOURTH fastest times on both short and long runs in preseason testing.
Haas didn't enter F1 in the stupid old way where you buy a backmarker team and stay a backmarker team. I feel this bothers the same people who wish for the old 'Bernie Ecclestone' points system where the top 3 get them all, and everyone else should be perfectly happy just to rub shoulders with the big boys. The EU is politically socialist, but when it comes to F1, it's full Medieval, where the only way to the top is to already be there. I can't tell if this is just the culture there, or if it's a relic of the Ecclestone days, but it's pathetic regardless.