Personally I loved combined, because it represents true diversity of skier knowledge. But sadly almost no one wanted to compete more serious, so they kind of enforce these changes.
I am not against changes, just they should try them at first in low tier, then World cup and later on big stage.
Also, I would like to point out, for Team Event, it is really dumb, there are already known pairings based on Nations Cup.
It would be better to start with qualification runs, and according to those times set bracket.