True. I mean, there are some situations where I don’t love replay. Like when a player in hockey is offsides by a quarter of a centimeter. Overturning that kind of feels wrong. But when it’s blatant like it was with that handball, then it was used just fine. Like you said, the only thing that people should feel free to complain about is the rule itself. That I understand. But VAR was used perfectly there, as it was a blatant violation of the rule.
As you said, VAR isn't necessarily the problem, but the handball rule change is just dumb imo. And it looks even worse when you consider the context of Spurs benefiting from both versions of the rule against City within the last 6 months or so. Still, I agree that VAR didn't make the mistake here.
Also saw an interesting post the other day on VAR use for offside calls, but haven't been able to find the actual tweet. The technology is obviously limited to a certain frames per second and, by rule, the VAR official evaluates the offside position based on the first frame after the ball has been played (i.e. left the passing player's foot). Well in the amount of time lapsed between these frames, Sterling ran another 15cm and was deemed to be approx. 2.5cm offside for that goal against West Ham that was called back. The margin of error using VAR was 6 times greater than the distance that Sterling was deemed to be offside, so it's really not a black and white system.
Edit: and also consider that there's no perfect way for the VAR official to "draw" the attacker and defender's position line. How does one decide where each player's arm starts when it is their futhest-forward ball-playing limb?