I really like NIL and the portal. I think we excel at them, despite some fan overreactions at various times. And it has does a lot to level the playing field.
It is vastly superior to the old broken way, where certain known teams threw gigantic bags with impunity and things were rigged according to who was permitted to cheat with impunity and who was not. Think Bama and GA, Kentucky and say Kansas in basketball and LSU in baseball. Bag city. Chargers galore.
You can look at the extremely biased way that tampering is called today (a typical NCAA deal) and see what the old system amounted to.