"We should have good people run it." Who are these people?
This was the story I heard about Ream. This wasn't true. This was the story I heard about Hendrix. This wasn't true either. This was the story I heard about all the other people who joined up with Ream, which was also bullshit.
Aside from a few women, DaShawn, and Yuto, this terrible contests promotes a good deal of people who have no place in skateboarding. Jagger is the best example of someone who should have been filtered out a long time ago. He is--somehow--an even a lamer version of Shawn White.
The only real solution to this is for skateboarding to walk away from a terrible global institution. Unless, you believe that the Olympics will allow Dime to create the format for the next Olympics.
The X-Games, Maloof Cup, etc. were dumb, but they were completely different to this nonsense. They had power via their deep pockets, but that was it. The Olympics on the other hand is far worse cause it not only has money (NBC paid nearly 8 billion for the rights to the Olympics), it also has the power to frame competitions "below" it, and it has the potential to shape governmental policies towards skateboarding (something the X-Games didn't have as it could only temporarily make Love Park a spot until the next day it went back to being off-limits). It has a lot of power to reshape the way city councils, state govs, schools, etc. view/fund skateboarding, which can deeply affect it. The alternative hierarchy that the Olympics create is powerful and it was a shortcut for a lot of people who would have had to get actual jobs if it wasn't for this opportunity to sell something that they didn't own.
Finally, I'm a bit confused by what you mean by granular when you are also suggesting that my solution (end the whole thing) is too broad.