Baseball rules are changing because common core types don't have long enough attention spans for traditional baseball.

I kid you not.

There is now a 15 second pitch clock, and other additional rules to speed up game play, such as the positioning of infielders to prevent them from moving players according to who is at bat and where they normally hit a ball, the increasing of the size of the bases from 15 inches to 18 inches to make it easier for people to touch them and steal bases, and other new rules for pitchers. A complete rundown on the changes is here and I repeat - they are doing this because "viewers have shorter attention spans" and "they need gameplay to be more exciting".

https://www.audacy.com/theteam980/authors/tim-kelly

In other words, the audience is too un-disciplined and dumbed down for totally traditional baseball. And I won't blame video games or smartphones for that, this is TOTALLY a symptom of a failed educational system.