Yugioh has always been all about backrow the moment the game start getting powerful backrow cards.
Even controlling a 5k ATK monster is pointless if you don't have the backrow to protect it, because your opponent now WILL try to stop it with effect (since getting over ATK that high is too difficult, but it's doable with effect)
In the future, its all about handtrap. Meanwhile, monsters on the field will consist of something that can negate. You could say it was a new era of backrow, with an exact same method, which is disrupting your opponent.
basically instead of disrupting your opponent with spell/trap, the game shifts into disrupting your opponent with monster effect, both on the field and in your hand.
Anoymous
Lael