Yep. What I been sayin' all along. People are starting to see the pattern.
Yep. They're building the fastest car they can possibly build, and generally a very oversteery or 'pointy' car is faster than a neutral or understeery car, all other things being equal. The less 'stable' the car is, the easier it is to get the car to 'rotate' or turn, and the more performance potential it generally has. The problem for some drivers is that they can't handle a lot of oversteer, even in F1. Meanwhile guys like Max, Lewis, Alonso, Schumi, Senna, and other elites can adapt to and handle pretty much anything the engineers can throw at em. Guys like that with virtually limitless windows always hear the complaints about the car 'being built for them'. The reality is that the engineers just build it to be as quick as possible and the elite drivers are just aliens who are able to handle it better, while their teammates with much smaller windows can't adapt so well. Then as the season progresses, the quicker driver always gets upgrades first, etc. Every team on the grid does the same thing. It sucks to be #2 on the team with any of the GOATs on the other side of the garage.
Oh, and re: Checo's career, today I asked my buddy who knows F1 things (who knows the Slims and the Andrettis and is the guy who gave us the signed Checo prints the winter before Checo's first year in F1) whether Checo could end up at Cadillac. His answer was a simple 'yes'. So it sounds like he's at least under consideration.