New hurling format clear as mud!

Is it just me or do other GAA people find the new hurling format as clear as mud?
I'm delighted that an t-Uachtaran Nickey Brennan understands it well enough to say that the new qualifier format should make for a great year's hurling.
I confess to being absolutely baffled.
However, there are a couple of things I am clear about, one that the game's not straight under this system and secondly it does little or nothing to promote hurling in Connacht or Ulster.
Now if anyone reckons I have lost the plot on this one or simply don't understand the set-up then feel free to let me know as you're probably right.
Firstly I welcome the fact that the qualifiers are being played on a knockout basis.
The experiment with the round robin system for losers in the provinces was as interesting as watching paint dry with big sides trapped in them going through the motions to get the required results while all the games bar usually the final one of the three lacking bite and drama.
So I am a big fan of the knockout element.
But for me that's as good as it gets with the new format.
My first problem is that Antrim and Galway have to play in Qualifier 1, which means that one whole province will have no home interest in the championship early in the season, this year it will be Ulster.
Secondly the new system puts first round and semi final losers in Leinster and Munster on a par.
This may have been true in the '60s and maybe again in the'80s and '90s but let's be honest the Leinster Championship is now crap and it's a long time since it was genuinely competitive.
It is Kilkenny and the also rans and to be straight the other sides in Leinster are on a par with Antrim so why couldn't the Saffrons have been playing first round losers from Leinster in the first qualifying game?
And as the season progresses the Munster sides who lose in the semis and the final are far superior to anything which Leinster has to offer and this gives the Leinster sides a status their results simply don't deserve.
And if anyone believes that the Leinster sides will catch up in the next three years I'll send them all a crackerjack pencil if they're right.
If we are going down this route then teams should have been seeded on their performances instead of rewarded on the basis of an antiquated championship set-up which is stuck in an age when Leinster sides outside the Cats were still at the races.