Comments on https://lichess.org/@/jk_182/blog/looking-at-the-quality-of-rapid-and-blitz-games/X7XQmLgl
VERY NICE BLOG.
Not enough rapid events, and they always seem to be lumped together with blitz.
As Gukesh showed, you can excel at rapid but not be good at blitz, and I think there should be more rapid events that are just rapid with no blitz at all.
You get games that can be entertaining to watch because there is reasonable progress and they don't go on too long and aren't going so fast you find it hard to follow what is happening. It is also higher quality chess than blitz.
If you can get an expert commentator to comment on the game live as it is being played, and that means one game, not jumping from one to another, it would be good.
Even better, if done in the right environment, would be for the players themselves to give their thoughts live as they play. Of course that means online or some kind of hybrid to prevent cheating, because it isn't possible over the board.
Kramnik commented that the Rapid tiebreakers of the Ding-Nepomniachtchi world championship match were of higher quality than their classical games.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=119408