I think the concept of VAR actually never has been the real issue, the three issues are the officiating, the rules being so open to interpretation, and the players or teams constantly looking for fouls or begging for everything to get checked.

It just leads to everything getting stopped and delayed for the smallest matters even though it was entirely meant to only iron out major issues. The officiating not getting the major issues correct then belatedly apologising isn’t a fault of the system and never has been. The system for the most part captures exactly what it is meant to, every mistake is some numpty doing their job wrong.