I had been working on completing the Exclusive Series for the new Jaguar. I could not beat the required distance of 13.4km in an endurance race on Tier 9. The best that I could do was to get to about 12km. So, I lost an elimination race about a dozen times. That reduced the target distance in the ER to 9.5km. But I achieved a distance of 21.37km almost effortlessly. That suggests that dumbing down affected not only the target distance but also the bots, perhaps their number, perhaps their spawning points, perhaps their speed.