I mean - the complaints I've seen about banter, including my own - have almost **always** involved just making the episode longer to compensate...

In your above example regarding chips/steak....

It's not that we're "complaining" about the quality of the chips...it's more that we get exactly 1 kg of food, and it's 800 grams of chips and 200 of steak sometimes - and that's way less satisfying than the inverse. Now we can solve this by rejiggering the ratios, or by just upping the amount of steak, and making the entire portion larger - which is literally EXACTLY what the boys did in the episodes following the major amounts of criticism/concern, and they met near universal praise in the episode threads!

You're trying to make an argument that nobody is making : that the banter isn't liked...It's one that Troy troublingly made as well, completely missing the point and stirring the pot.

You keep getting told that your comparison is a flawed one and you keep doubling down. It's kind of jarring to see someone so completely and intentionally misrepresent someone's argument, despite it being rephrased and reinforced multiple times.