The force that you need to retrieve a ball even as originally intended is already highly sensitive to the proper spacing of the goal.
I could easily see very long and heated threads later in the season with people complaining that event X or Y didn’t set some of the fields correctly and that it was impossible to descore balls from some of the goals and how it was unfair.
For example:
My guess is that GDC will be sending additional field setup instructions before local competitions begin to ensure that the goals are setup correctly at every venue.
Never hurts to remind such things to EPs that rely on volunteers who may never seen a VRC competition before and have no idea how important those fractions of an inch could be.