I think the justification behind this is fine, I just wish there would be a 1 year warning or have it be slowly phased in over multiple seasons.
those were the china teams
wo ai ruiguan !!! 
I don’t think these rules are really fair to be affecting every single team. If these are problems in China enforce the rules in China. How is the GDC going to enforce the rules in the United States. There are so many teams that have painted parts that they are able to be reused. Also what about the fact that there are a lot of people that paint their robots to make them different from each other.