The reality is that it's going to take years to make this work well. Both referees and players have to adjust to it. It's not happening overnight. If football had been a normal sport and FIFA hadn't been a collection of incorrigible conservative knobs we would have done this 10-15 years ago, and we'd be in a good place right now.
Instead we've let it go so far that whether the referee is having a good or a bad day has become more important than anything else on a typical match day. The game keeps getting quicker and more athletic and there's just no way for a human being to keep up on the pitch without technical assistance.
There's always going to be someone who has to make a decision in the end, and just because they have more information doesn't mean they're going to make the right one. But they will have the information instead of having to rely on pure guesswork. We've seen some shoddy refereeing in the final groupstage round, but I reckon this tournament would still have been much, much worse without VAR.
