New season idea
What is they took the best baker or winner of every bake off and put em in a double elimination season, and turn up the difficulty well above the usual season? I say best baker cause I think in some situations the winner wasn't the best baker, they just won the last episode, since as well all know u can score 2nd to the bottom in every stage and then get 1st place in the last and win the whole thing. But either would work.
edit: I prefer the laid back( mostly/usually) vibe too, and I've disliked every competitive baking show I've seen except gbbo, doesn't feel right. I dont mean turn it up too much, just to a degree since they're all the better bakers of each season and many of them didn't seem to struggle that much at all in the regular bake off, even if they didn't win it was often just because someone else took a bigger risk or had better flavor/appearance. After all the show does that itself already as each episode progresses, ep 10 is far harder than ep 1