Nah. I do like to think of how things could be better. And one way is when cross has more cross. I disagree about hopping being a legit skill and think they should just raise the barriers a bit or add a third and be done with it. Technical skill to me is in the crossin'. And there's plenty there to be had.

To me the hopping is just too devastating when it goes wrong. When someone attempts a tricky stairclimb or otherwise steep climb they're not going to break bones when it goes wrong. Even steep crazy descents when they go wrong don't cause so much reliably regular wreckage.

I'm not concerned about me personally. I think I could do it. It's not done much around here anyway. I just don't think people should be tempted into it. No other part of the technique of CX has such consequences. "Oh here's the part where we ride straight at a board and if anything goes wrong we break all sorts of stuff." That's not cross. A dangerous stunt isn't a sporting technique.