It's a free-choice issue, IMO. If people want handicap tournaments, they should be able to have them. It's not our business to limit someone else's right to have a good time.
What I'd like to see in lieu of that is for state tournaments and anything higher to be contested on sport-compliant patterns, but not to adjust the averages/handicaps to compensate. That would keep the baggers somewhat at bay.
I bowled in my state's championship for the first time in five years and was dismayed, not only by the easy THC that was out there, but by the attitude of some of the bowlers. After a first day where I shot +80 to my average even though I was shooting like crap, I mentioned to a few guys how nice it would be if the lanes were more challenging, and they looked at me like I was trying to play a disco record at a country juke joint. But it was the state's championship tournament, after all...
Jess