Personally, I have enjoyed Monster Jam more the past two years than I ever have before. There doesn't seem to be much of an indie scene up here so I won't really talk about that, but Soaring Eagle is consistently one of the best monster truck shows of the year. As for Monster Jam, I'd pretty much given up going to Providence because the shows just weren't particularly entertaining. The monster truck portions of the shows were okay at best and the rest (I'm looking at you, Quad Wars.) was predictable to say the least. The #MoreMonsterJam/Amsoil Series is one of the best things Monster Jam has done in recent memory. There's a level of energy at those events that I've never before seen in an arena show. The Fox Sports 1 Series has produced great shows since it started, even if the championship was a complete blowout this year. I've been to three stadium shows (Foxboro 2014, 2015, and 2016) and each one has been better than the last. I don't care if all the tracks look the same because the current layout works really well. I'm not saddened by the decrease in the amount of cars on tracks. I don't feel like I'm missing anything when they're not there, and they're pretty much worthless when they're embedded in a dirt obstacle anyway.
As for some of the points others have made:
"they even plan out who does backflips and who doesn't"
As Dustin Hart said when this was first mentioned, this is a safety thing. It's not so much that they decide who will be doing backflips, it's just them saying who can.
"Now it's all about the commercialism and profit."
Yeah, that's kind of how businesses work.