Interesting point. How come the other teams with slim sidepods, like Williams & McLaren, have instead adopted wider, downwashing sidepods? Leaving 9 out of 10 teams deciding against the Mercedes route.
If the 25mm floor raise for 2023 will render the wide, downwashing sidepod solution no longer effective, that would seem a very unfair intervention from the FIA given the development efforts the overwhelming majority of constructors have made towards that design.