This is exactly it. If one wants to understand the decision to give the points to the teams, the mental shift you need to make is this: if you wanted investors to back teams (ie. people who aren’t in it for the marketing exposure, let alone love of the sport) how would you design the system? I don’t love it...
Sounds like Orbea may have taken the opportunity to buy the full program off of YT? They had a brand new team truck and everything. Might have been a good deal if they were under pressure to sell out
My thoughts exactly - teams must be able to retain their points through an ownership change. I just assumed that was the whole point of having the teams retain the points in the first place - to make it more financially compelling to field one.