I genuinely hope you're right. But in the long term equal engines is not in the interest of those who run and make money from karting. Engine builders and Teams don't get paid big bucks unless they can provide extra performance for little rich Johnie.
Bottom line the nature of the internal combustion engine and the engineering limitations within a given budget means you will never see sufficiently equal engines. IMO it's lost once differences get beyond 2 or 3 tenths, because then it's gone beyond the difference available to be found between drivers.
Solutions simple, pooled engines for national championships and at lower levels a universal buy-back with eligibility checking, both provided as part of the contract by the winning engine bidder. But it won't happen in any general context because the karting business doesn't want it. See above.
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