Handbrake turn

Only a few days after a new points system was introduced into Formula 1, the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) has claimed the system is invalid resulting in the Federation International Automobile (FIA) abandoning it until at least 2010. In view of the FIA's about turn, will the maintenance of the existing points system enhance, maintain or diminish the uncertainty of outcome? Does there need to be a broad, in-depth debate involving all F1 stakeholders aimed at determining a new points system? Or is the FIA's imposition of the new scheme, FOTA's rejection of it, and then the FIA's change of heart actually more about power politics than the sport's fundamental appeal?