Hard agree. I personally don't think the movement has been inventive enough in ways to get bang for buck from its quotas. It should actively 'sweat' the assets - for example, you could have another TEN track cycling events without a single extra quota, yet have up to three more days of ticket sales (the ten being M+W x Kilo/500, IP, Scratch, Points and Eliminator), you could probably jiggle the 128 archery quotas by making the mens and women's team event '2-man' not '3-man', freeing between 24 and 32 quotas for a barebow field archery event using broadly the same forested venue as the mountain bike uses. I've no problem with Canoe slalom cross, however silly it looks to some, if it takes up few new spaces and just uses already qualified quota holders, There's definately room for a mixed 2 x 200 metre medley relay to give the distance swimmers outside freestyle a relay to aim at, again requiring no more quota places.
I'll be honest, I think judo is perhaps a little overgifted with quotas, compared with boxing and taekwondo - you could easily shave 4 per weight, creating nearly 50 free quota places for, as we discussed, e.g a snooker tournament. Golf is missing a trick not showcasing its variety - its main events should be different from the standard PGA fare - i'd suggest a 'supercut' to 16 after 2 rounds of strokeplay, followed by 4 supertight quickfire 9 hole match play rounds - same total holes, but a totally different feel (ps tie breaker is brutal but tv friendly, 1 shot on a par three 10th after a tie i 9 holes, nearest the pin. THAT'S sudden death. Throw in men's and women's pair fourballs, and mixed pair foursomes, same 9 hole rules...
you can throw in again a supertight tennis team event, teams of 2 M 2 W, playing 'champion ties' where each player only plays two sets in the order WD (W1W2) MS (M1) XD (M2W2) WS (W1) MD (M1M2) - 5 set matches, but individual players only playing two maximum - 4 groups of three teams, followed by QF, SF and Final - no extra quotas required.
none of these ideas require a single extra quota place, but hugely increase bang for the buck...