Fans weren't absolutely fine with using our own eyes. Officials got absolutely battered for wrong offside calls before VAR. People were moaning every week about it.
The moaning has not stopped, in fact I would argue its worse now with the "help" of tech than it ever was before.
Leadership means taking decisions that cuts out the noise, the head of the game and the PGMOL should IMO reprogramme the game to how it was before, using tech for absolutes like goal line and offside and then invest in training refs to the game and the rules that does not include video refs and rules that are there to work around video etc.
People are going to moan regardless but at least this way there are no delays, no stopping for the ref to go to screens when a decision has already been told is wrong, no mic's on refs like the US, no breaks, no room for future ad breaks (they are coming).
There has to be a level of the eye test in the game, its fundamental to the sport, you can see what has happened to the quality of the game because of the introduction of stats and so called facts in that part, its become an awful product, VAR in the same was has contributed negatively to it.
Money aside, its amazing how all other leagues without VAR manage to live and continue without them, fans are not throwing themselves off bridges because the ref in a Huddersfield game. I go to plenty of non league games and its general a much better experience when the game isn't stopped like it is in the PL, yes there is less on the line, I get it, but I am just talking generically here.
VAR is a massive burden on the game, more so because of how it was packaged to fans and what its failed to deliver on. If the PL is too big a product to not have VAR surely its too big a product to have it as a work in progress which is throwing up so much BS
