Why 'The Chase' is (Getting) Annoying

I enjoy a good quiz. 'The Chase' fits thst bill. But seeing something everyday exposes annoyances.

Contestents have decided the lower offer is an insult. (Even plus lower offers can be deemed insulting!) 

      The thing is, the lower offer makes things easier for the contestent, hence harder for the chaser, so the chaser doesn't want the lower offer to be accepted. This is why it's so low: to make it unappealing. 

      The better the contestent, the less the chaser wants them to take the lower offer, so the lower their lower offers are. So the lower the offer is, the less the chaser wants it to be accepted. This is why low lower offers are compliments.

Every afternoon, Bradley ends the show by inviting people onto the Chase if they're 'clever enough'. Quiz shows test people's knowledge. Being clever is being intelligent. They aren't the same. 

      A chef understands food whilst a waiter delivers food; intelligent understand information whilst knowledgeable people deliver information. Sure, people can do both, but if you want one, you don't advertise for the other. 

      Whilst intelligent people are quite often knowledgeable, they are different skills. For example, I know the square root of -1 is i. I couldn't tell you what this means or its implications. Stinging nettles are often found with dock leaves but they're not the same thing. You wouldn't invite a roofer to fit your floors.

When they ask a question about a Greek god, the contestent can answer with the equivalent Roman god yet still get the answer right. They're essentially the same pantheons so this isn't the problem. What is the problem? Answering a Greek god for a Roman god question is deemed incorrect. This should be the other way around, considering that most Roman gods are essentially copy and pasted from the Greek pantheon.

So often, people say they don't know the answer because it's 'before their time'. Do you know what else is before their time? Questions about the Romans. The Tudors. The Victorians. You know, the entirety of history. But no-one whips out the 'it's before their time' excuse then. Why whip it out for more modern history?

Quite often, the contestent selects an answer and Bradley shouts, "I never knew that!" But he says this before the correct answer has been revealed. Until the correct answer is revealed, you still don't know that! You can't know a fact until you've actually been told what the fact is.

Either fellow contestents or Bradley, mostly the latter, says, "You're a better player than that." 

      Now, the only way to see if someone is a good quizzer is if they do well at a quiz. So if they do badly in the cash builder, what evidence do you have that they are better? 

      Be better if they were more confident is exactly the same as saying they would be better if they were more knowledgeable. No-one tells the unknowledgeable

The teammates give the exact same advice in every show. 

      Don't me wrong, over all the years it's all be along the same lines, but recently it's become vertabim. Like contestents are reading a script. It's boring and pointless. 

      Plus what they say has no relation to reality. Telling their fellow contestents they got tough questions or are capable of taking the higher offer isn't helpful. It's pandering at best and outright lying (hence making the speaker seem downright dim) at worst.

The show's run for quite some time. It means these repeat offenders have had plenty of opportunity to be repeated and thus become more annoying. 

      Some could be fixed easily by the creators. Problems with the contestents are clearly harder to influence. The rest are down to Bradley's ad libs which the creators should reel him in on. 

      But I suppose what motovation do the creators have to fix the problems when the show's so popular thst people will love it regardless?