Yeah could be slightly less countries getting in to final tourny but overall there is 3-4 teams that shouldn't be there so i don't consider it that bad, one extra training match for better teams as preparation for playoffs. "Champions league" is way worse imo, not to mention lower euro leagues.
Special place in hell for them who came up with it.
What i hate most with so many meaningless national team matches is that they stop leagues all the time these days, was this now 3rd or 4th nt break during this season.
On top of that, we used about month and 6 figures to fix with heat lamps our olympic stadium field into such condition that we could have played the final against Polskis if we would have won Wales. We didn't so it turned out to be friendly match against Estonia that none cares about. Idiocy to extreme.