compared to average bro routine: bench press force reps (it’s all you!!!) + bench burnouts + run the rack curls + partial leg press… relative to this, crossfit rocks.
To add, Crossfit's workouts on the site are often dangerous to attempt to do. Their structure is random, and the volume excessive. It is not scaled nor is it sensible.
"bro routines" are often not optimized or particularly useful for a training goal, but they are generally not dangerous in themselves. They do these things because of ignorance of proper training and vague goals. They do not think they are doing something new or unique. Quite the contrary, they are emulating what they see.
But Crossfit is heavily marketed and promoted as something new. It is promoting dangerous things and its members (whatever they are called) will defend it at all costs. They constantly slip around, changing. Well, I am not going to play that game. Either "Crossfit" is something, or it isn't, and I am going with what it officially is. It is dangerous and ill advised. Whether or not constantly fatiguing the body is good or not, it gives methods which are very dangerous, such as high rep barbell snatches and high intensity intervals which are impossible to do and maintain safe form.
It is, essentially, a form of high intensity interval training done constantly and poorly.
Crossfit has a lot of peripherals which are good. There are good coaches for powerlifting, Olympic weightlifting, gymnastics, etc on the periphery. Many affiliates may focus on these, and scrap the essence of Crossfit.
Maybe that is what would fix it...scrap the WODs and main site, and have a gym network of "performance based training", and that performance could be anything, as long as it is based on performance. Gyms could be connected which focus on certain aspects, instead of flailing about, tiring people out, causing injuries, and waiting for people to figure out they have to not do Crossfit to succeed at Crossfit.
If "Crossfit" is just a word, then it will be impossible to have opinions on it. Fortunately, at the moment, it is owned and defined by an individual, and that is what is being judged.