I just can't stand that hairpin and it irks me more here just on the fact it's on a track that wasn't known to have one where it was. It feels like they could've made it feel more like a race track without changing the identity of it.
I mean, it looks nearly like it. Except the sharp s-curves are right after the bridge instead of being closer to the final turn, and the final turn now has a right-handed curve feeding into it.
I honestly feel different from you. I mean, the roads and scenery are beautiful, but I don't like using that to re-imagine a track that already existed. It feels like the race track equivalent of remaking a video game and then going to change the type of game it was while doing so.
I honestly never thought the scenary was terrible, it was just simple. You had a theme of open grasslands with rolling hills before going through a gorge before coming back to the grasslands again. Though I recognize your opinion and I know for sure you're not the only one based on my experiences elsewhere.
The old layout to me however was also fun to drive on, it didn't feel too narrow or too wide. It had the roads just right, I liked the elevation change fine enough and the sharper turns didn't feel like they interrupted the flow of the course. It also felt a bit forgiving for when you made mistakes, which the new version just doesn't.
