Track opinions are a lot like driver opinions where a lot of times they’re “as good as their last race” in the public eye.

There is some of that, to be sure. There is also a fair bit of outright bias towards classic European circuits. Hence the Imola example, as that is often talked of as one of those great tracks but it hasn’t produced a great race to watch in ages. It’s possible how fun and/or challenging a track is to drive factors in for some people, too. Everyone loves Spa but it’s mostly been boring races there in recent years.

Changing external factors like the track surface play tricks too - Interlagos has always been reliable for amazing action, but the new tarmac seemed to ruin the possibility of taking alternate lines which made the sprint much less exciting than I thought it would be (the race was wet so let’s put that aside).