‘Remove grant application barriers’ to fix research inequalities

Strikes me that many of these recommendations dramatically increase the administrative burden of awarding grants (eliminating various demand management measures) and may not be realistically feasible even if they are good ideas. On the other hand, some of them (lottery/universal funding) dramatically decrease it. It always make me laugh when Wellcome discuss stuff like this seeing as they are the most-exceptionalist of all of the architects of the current super-exclusive funding system. Are they actually aware of the role they played in creating the problem they now wish to solve?

Considering prior history of successful funding also perpetuates such inequalities, doesn't it? Past UKRI funding has found to disproportionately discriminated against people with protected characteristics. So, relying on funding history serves to maintain such discrimination.