I think, and I mean
I think that people are actually talking about the scripts of the breakdowns, mishaps and comic situations. They are more and more forced and no spontaneous or they have always been like this (well oiled and prepared) but we spectators never paid attention to this.
The time in Romania where they spent the night in their respective cars and woke up to that massively gigantic beast of a dam, how cringing was it to watch them pulling fake faces and saying out loud "OMG, can't believe it". Yeah there was no road sign anywhere mentioning that massive structure, and none of the researchers ever found out about it..... next time, the TG team sleeps under the Eiffel Tower without any idea they were there.
You might argue they're no actors but if they use scripts then there no escaping the acting bit, which they do sometimes very badly (Hammond in particular)
I was writing the other day about the airport race on how everything I pre guessed at the start of the race materialized (all trucks emptying themselves at some point, not all trucks passing the finish line and those who did did it on 2 wheels and a steering wheel). We saw the exact same race with London buses and caravans, they say that the best jokes are the shortest. A fourth race of that sort wouldn't impress me one bit.
I have no problem with scripts, but we need new ones please.