I like RT and he is usually spot on. He is largely right here, but he also seems to lack a detailed knowledge specific to cycling, of how a lot of cycling teams were actually run in the 1990s and 2000s. The biographies of David Millar, Wegelius et al show how shambolic it all often was - Millar lobbied for years to actually get a TT specific bike for TTs at Cofidis; Wegelius describes finding out the stage result from the paper the next morning when on the Vuelta etc. Sure there was the odd Mapei, but mostly it seems like chaos. I suspect Sky has 'professionalized' the peleton, at least a [marginal] amount.