The reason nobody is playing open events is because of the miserable joining process. You select a race type, choose a car, and then get told there’s an event in progress so just sit around for an age for that to end.
When it does, if you’re lucky, you get to race in 2 events in a 3 event championship, so you have no chance of winning.
But more likely, the championship will end without you even getting a chance to take part and you have to start all over again, selecting a car, hoping you can actually participate in the first event, realising you can’t, waiting an age, then having to start all over again, selecting a car …
Do they really think people will take part because of the playlist and think ‘More of this please!’?