It's a tough call about UCI being counter productive to innovation and being rather stuck about how a bike should "look like" and "how much it should weigh" etc. An organisation dedicated to making Retro-rules? The saga of the mythical 1hr record destroyed by the UCI is epic.
BUT
An extreme of letting the floodgates wide open would be the road pro circuit (at least TT) is all done on recumbents inserted in oversized torpedo suppositories blazened with sponsorship - because they are faster and better value for money per m3.
Ultimately, if you do not like the rules in any competitive sport then stop playing the game and go off to do something else.
If the UCI sets too many unreasonable rules, then I have faith riders and sponsors will eventually say arseholes to the lot and go off and set-up in another form where there is more freedom and money.
BUT
An extreme of letting the floodgates wide open would be the road pro circuit (at least TT) is all done on recumbents inserted in oversized torpedo suppositories blazened with sponsorship - because they are faster and better value for money per m3.
Ultimately, if you do not like the rules in any competitive sport then stop playing the game and go off to do something else.
If the UCI sets too many unreasonable rules, then I have faith riders and sponsors will eventually say arseholes to the lot and go off and set-up in another form where there is more freedom and money.