2 of my 4 recommendations were once rules in the mlb. So no, not take the baseball out of baseball.
You know you should really watch some baseball historically. I think you’d be flabbergasted how the games changed through the years and likely wouldn’t be so pedestal prone.
I might have watched baseball historically. I started listening to it in 1946 when there were great announcers and was playing Little League baseball in 1948. I have watched baseball since the advent of television, if anything happened historically in the past 75 years I have been aware of it.