These teams were clearly abusing load management which caused the rule to exist in the first place

and you know they gonna get right back to doing that shyt if the league opens up a loophole to allow it.
You can't just cancel the rule because someone you like didn't make the cut.
This is why it's so hard for the nba to evolve, everyone acts like babies the first couple of years
Literally did the same thing with the all star game, then the game ended up being aight so everyone shut the fukk up after crying about it for MONTHS