Re: Dilution of quality too..
No, what's happening here is the BBC is not only funded by the licence fees, The BBC has other responsibilities that are funded by the government. So this government has defunded everything they can and have forced the BBC to use the Licence receipts to pay for everything which is utterly unsustainable so something has to give and that is program diversity and quality.
So having crippled the BBC the government can now claim the BBC is a mess and defund them even more.