So, reading through this thread, it seems obvious to me that there isn't too much actually wrong with the game itself.
None of the ideas put forward are really ground-breaking or game-changing.
It just needs a vast improvement with the officiating it seems. And yes, get rid of VAR. Apart from the fact it hasn't improved the game, it is also not right to have something at one level and not all the others. It's a bit like having goalposts with nets in the prem, just goalposts in the championship and jumpers even further down (waits for a flood of Ron Manager quotes
).