So many things wrong with this post. You clearly haven't been watching The TEN races over the past few years and you have no idea what you're talking about.
The TEN is designed to be whatever the runners want it to be. It's not ONLY to get a particular standard. That's why The TEN has multiple heats and multiple lights set at different paces.
In 2022, Elise Cranny had her own set of pacing lights so she could try to break the American record. Also in 2022, Grant Fisher and Mo Ahmed had their own set of lights to try to break the American and Canadian records.
In 2023 Monson and McColgan had one set of lights set way faster than any standard so that they could try to break their national records. Runners World even wrote an article right before the 2023 race called "American 10k Records Will Be On High Alert at The TEN on Saturday Night" because Monson was going after the American 10k record, not a standard. The rest of the runners had their own set of pacing lights.
Same thing in 2024 with the fast women's race. Alicia Monson and the Ethiopian had their own set of lights to try to break 30 minutes. What they were doing had absolutely nothing at all to do with what the group following the second set of lights were doing. The second set of lights was set for 30:40.
This whole idea of "chaos ensued" is something that you completely made up. There was no chaos. Clearly you didn't watch the race.
The fact that most of the women didn't keep up with the 30:40 light was because they weren't in good enough shape, which is not Monson's fault.
And there is no "going back" to standards only wavelight pacing because The TEN will continue to set the lights at different paces for different purposes, just like they have done in years past.
Ritz and Monson didn't ruin anything for any other runners. Stop making fake posts about things that didn't really happen.