The AFL is allegedly a professional sporting competition, why don't they even attempt some basic degree of fairness?
Cat park has been objectively the hardest road trip for 20 years. Carlton, Essendon and Collingwood flat out get to just not play there. It's garbage. (Aside from Essendon this week obviously)
Either the stadium is good enough for AFL or it isn't.
It really shouldnt be the hard for the AFL to schedule a fixture that is built with some degree of fairness in mind, rather than maximising revenue. The AFL is not a private company with shareholders who needs to squeeze every last drop of profit. They're administrators of a sport.