I had my reservations on DRS, but it seems the FIA is trying to decrease its influence with shorter zones, which is good IMO.
Bernie gets too much criticism (which I'm sure he personally couldn't care less about). This is mainly due to people who have no idea what his role in F1 is and don't know his ways of thinking. First: he has no power in rule making. He's there to make money. That's his only goal. If he sees that something doesn't work (take the point system for example), he'll make up some ridicoulous system because he knows that people who know their stuff will come up with better ideas. Bernie is no dummy. He knows that his system will never make it and I'm pretty sure he doesn't want it to. If he proposes the random rain on tracks to improve overtaking, within a day some technician will come with a good, feasible plan of overtaking, because some offended, simpleton journalist will ask him his opinions on Bernies plan. Effect: more overtaking, more viewers, more money, which is what Bernie wants.
New countries? Bernie doesn't care where the races are held, as long as the circuits pay up. There are only 20 places on the calendar while there are much more circuits who want a race. This leads to circuits effectively bidding up to eachother. Bernie is here to promote F1 all over the world and make money from it (especially the latter, let's be honest). And yes, he does take a large sum of the profit himself and yes, many of the tracks are boring. But it's his way of hinting to the 'classic' circuits to keep their act together in order to keep F1 the pinnacle of motorsport. Just look at how quickly Silverstone had their revamp plans ready when they were thrown off the calendar, the same goes for the years Spa was thrown off. Get your act together, or you're out. It's debatable on to what extent this should be done, since F1 really does need Spa, Monza, Silverstone and the like. However, a race on a yearly deficit or a race on a track with crappy facilities isn't sustainable for F1, both on the financial side as on the image side (which largely overlaps with the financial side).
Just imagine F1 without Bernie. There are three options: the teams will do everything themselves, which would end up a joke and a failure. The FIA would do it: can you name a bureaucratic organization with a business mindset? Me neither. A 'new' Bernie would be introduced: effects unknown. Really, Bernie is the best we have at the moment.
Then there are the people longing to the 80s and so on. Was the racing closer? No not really. Pick some random F1 races from those eras and see the gaps after lap one. Also have a look at how many cars finished within a lap of the leader. The only reason there were many more freak results and podium finishers was the low reliability. We have high reliability now and close racing, which is what we all want. Seriously, F1 is better than ever now.
On the whole, I'm pretty satisfied with the way F1 is run.
This should've been in the pet hates thread, but what are you gonna do?