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It would place a limit on the teams actually competing there. I am not sure it would water down as much because the talent would just make a lateral shift from division to division.
What people are saying though is that there is no "talent" to laterally shift in that scenario. If gyms had 36 true level 5 world medal-ready athletes, then they would already be large. If worlds was large heavy, that might work as people could cut "dead weight" and downsize if necessary, but it's harder to train more athletes and compete in a larger level.
It would be difficult to limit all 6 division to the same specific number because they all vary drastically in size, but maybe we can have some type of proportion algorithm that keeps worlds more or less balanced. Like saying 30 sm sr/ sm coed. 20 medium/moed. and 10 lg senior/ lg coed. I think right now, these reflect the number of teams that if they hit, could actually make finals give or take the judging that day. (As in, I honestly don't think there are more than 30 [that's even high] sm sr teams that have a very good shot at breaking into finals/medaling.) Cut 50% for finals and let the claws come out.