Serie A has continued to spread its fixtures across more kick off slots, which is a rational response to how the league earns money and an increasingly expensive one for the people in the stadium.
The commercial logic is not in dispute. More slots mean fewer matches competing with each other, and a package of exclusive windows sells for more than a package of simultaneous fixtures. Domestic broadcasters want it, and international buyers, for whom an early afternoon Italian kick off is a prime time product elsewhere, want it more.
The cost lands on away support. A Monday evening fixture six hundred kilometres from home is not a trip a supporter with a job can make, whatever the ticket costs, because the trains that would get them back do not run. Clubs know their travelling numbers by fixture slot, and the pattern is consistent enough that nobody inside the game argues about the direction, only about the size.
There are partial fixes that the league has used before: capping the number of unfavourable slots any single club receives in a season, publishing the calendar far enough ahead that travel can be booked cheaply, and coordinating with regional rail operators on the handful of fixtures where a late service would make the difference. None of these reverse the trend. They distribute its cost more evenly, which is the most that a broadcast led calendar allows.
The longer term question is what happens to the atmosphere that the broadcast package is selling. An away end that empties is a product change, and it is the one part of the inventory that cannot be bought back once supporters have got out of the habit.