Other than that, the tasks are pretty lame. Like last episode...what is a casual viewer supposed to enjoy about people marching, pouring soup, and carrying heavy bags (roadblock)?? Anybody could do that.
The trouble with those tasks is either:
a) Anyone can actually do them, so they're too easy, which provides no challenge
b) They're so incredibly hard that they massively slow down the "underdog" teams who are usually favourites of the casual viewer (i.e. the bull-run)

Almost all the "extreme" tasks keep the team order exactly the same, so there's no competition. The last one I can remember which resulted in any change of position was the incredibly easy bike-ride in Leg 1 of TAR12, and that got Nate/Jen ahead by about 30 seconds.