Gee,
I'm not a Florida guy in the winter. Its easier for me to work up here and I have family responsibilities as well, so I gut it out up here in the cold and snow. The way the place is set up doesn't affect me one iota but my friends who do go have voiced the same thing you just did.
My biggest gripe is the most moronic move in the history of racing, which was for Gulf to eliminate 1 1/16th mile racing. They should be shot and tortured first.
Its supposed to be a mecca of three year old racing and development and your only two turn option as a horseman is to go a mile and an eighth. Its beyond moronic. What worse is the incredible bias against outside posts even in the mile and an eighth races.
It just seems as if noone who designed the new place had any common sense whatsoever, and I'd have to say that perhaps slots were the only thing they had in mind.