people want it all... always...
you want figure skating to remain an olympic sport... bring in some rules and more quantitative ways to judge it..
then some fans miss the artistic aspect of the "sport"
if you want to kill the sport of figure skating, make it artsier....
you cannot judge art in the way that is needed to give olympic medals... if figure skating is no longer an olympic sport, federation will stop funding it... and it will die...
remember artistic ski (ballet?) it's long gone... they kept moguls and aerials from what used to be a 3 event sport.... the ballet was pretty much like figure skating... turns, hops, spins, and jumps while going down a hill... killed.. too artsy.. too hard to evaluate.
Figure skating is the most popular event in the Winter Olympics. Unless the IOC wants to kill the Winter Olympics entirely, figure skating will remain the premiere event regardless of any move to increase the value of artistry. Funny how it managed to survive all of those years, and produce legendary champions, while having a mark for "artistic impression," later changed to presentation.