Ah, I did an edit but I failed to post it- it was way better, and a bit less potentially rude, the “newcomers” line is a bit cheeky by itself- sorry!
Basically, the “4 sections of a trailcentre” was just as accurate or more so in the early days of uk enduro (I’m disregarding older recognisable enduro events, because they didn’t go anywhere- I feel like Repack Rider!). What we have now is a high end on top of that which we lacked a couple of years ago. If anything we maybe lack a bit of the midrange.
But ask yourself- if someone wants to put on, or race, an enduro which is less difficult, why is that a problem? I probably wouldn’t race it, nobody else has to- but some folks will do it and love it, and the sport will be stronger as a result. Why turn your nose up?
The only downside I’ve seen is that some folks like to think of enduro as extremer than it really is. I guess if you’re full of yourself because you raced an enduro last week, and your novice mate says “Yeah, I did one last month”, you might well say “No, that wasn’t a proper enduro like what I do” 😉
There’s never been a sport that benefitted from elitism and unnecessary restriction. IMO it’s impossible to find a single benefit, and the harm’s obvious, to the sport as a whole and to the higher level events which can’t exist by themselves.