While a season can be more dull than others when the alliance wins every comp, I'd much rather it play out and reward them for being able to take care of business than for the producers to introduce phony powers to try to bust up the power. Don't penalize players from a strong strategy and alliance that has great success. If I were in that alliance and we were playing the game perfectly, it's not my fault and I shouldn't be penalized or disrupted just because we're dominating.
I think the backlash was sooo strong when they basically made it so Paul could not be voted out that the powers have to be won right now. When they had the viewers vote for someone to have a power, and the only person anyone knew was Paul. It was just cheating.