i'd rather have a more predictable race with entertaining teams
That's mostly what I thought TAR13 was (just less so than TAR14) - it wasn't surprising that the lead teams went far, but an alternate but more surprising season where Terence/Sarah and Ken/Tina get eliminated early and Anthony/Stephanie, Anita/Arthur and Aja/Ty all have shocking comebacks would be much worse.

TAR7 is the best example of a season that's watchable almost only for its unpredictability (Debbie/Bianca's collapse, Ray/Deana's first-to-worst, alpha guys losing early and Meredith/Gretchen going so far) since there's not much else entertaining happening in it.
they were just both overshadowed by their teammates for me)
I thought so, but was wondering why you included Andrew since Dan was 99% of the comedy value of the team while Terence/Ken were a lot more even.