Well if you disagree that spotting obvious offsides and handballs (and to some extent fouls in the box) isn't progress I don't know there is anything more I can say.
One final thing to mention though, as I've already implied, is that it's the implementation not the technology or officials themselves (nobody likes being made a fool of) that are the main problem, that and ambiguous (or conversely too strict) rules that either leave no room for common sense rulings or allow officials to go with the 'safe' option.
Oh my god, are you being deliberately dense? I said besides offsides... so I'm saying the offside decisions are a positive.
The handball rule is shit, so I'm not chalking that up as a win for VAR.
Fouls in the box? Have you actually seen the stonewall penalty that wasn't given against Spurs last week? There are others too. Seemingly every week.
The officials are already acting like fools. Nobody is expecting them to get every decision right. They're human. That's what VAR should be there for - to correct what they've missed. But instead, it's largely being used to back up and endorse their already erroneous decisions. That's my issue. As well as a couple of the laws. How can you not see that?