Yeah, I understand but this is how I saw the thread too, a playground for personal preferences. Phelps is right, in the end the IOC couldn't care less about our opinions or anybody else's.
Karate and baseball/softball are certainly popular enough to vindicate their inclusion but the others were a bit surprising for me, especially skateboarding. I wonder what squash will have to go to get included. And of course football had the best attendance, we're talking about Brazil and football after all.
One thing I forgot to mention in my listing before was badminton returning to classic KO rounds like in tennis and table tennis. I fail to see the point of group stages in this sport.