That wasn’t my insinuation. The winter break is driven by the desire to make the Prem Comply with UEFA scheduling/guidelines/rules but clearly Sky/BT are more powerful as they have altered the application of the desired rule.
I agree as a consumer of a product at that price is also want some...
TV really does rule the roost doesn’t it? The aim of the break has been to always give teams a 10 day window of no official games which this achieves. Whether many of them choose to fly off for lucrative friendlies remains to be seen.