FIDE World championship 2024 worth anything ?

Ding... has lost at a really bad spot in the tournament.

The last two games are going to be nail bitters!

The best thing happen... one of them pulled ahead in Classical time controls... I can't stand drawing till the end and letting the WC title get decided by rapid and blitz time controls

"Highest rated player" is not "player who wins the world championship", same as in virtually every sport from athletics (each event in the world championship) to football (ok, teams taking the place of players). Most sports have a world championship, and it is something all players would love to win (at least at some time).

Not a certainty that it will be, but would be nice after I can't recall how many settled on rapid and blitz!

The world chess championship is not just the final match! It involves 4 stages each showing the challenger has performed better than others. At any time, the current champion has been there since success in all four of these stages, and his challenger has had recent success at all four.
It is in no way less indicative of chess superiority than the football (soccer) world championship is an indication of football superiority. The fundamental difference is that people take less notice of football rankings than they do of chess ratings.

"Since 1948, the world championship has mainly operated on a two or three-year cycle, with four stages:

1. Zonal tournaments: different regional tournaments to qualify for the following stage. Qualifiers from zonals play in the Interzonal (up to 1993), knockout world championship (1998 to 2004) or Chess World Cup (since 2005).
2. Candidates qualification tournaments. From 1948 to 1993, the only such tournament was the Interzonal. Since 2005, the Interzonal has mainly been replaced by the Chess World Cup. However extra qualification events have also been added: the FIDE Grand Prix, a series of tournaments restricted to the top 20 or so players in the world; and the Grand Swiss tournament. Since 2023, the Grand Prix has been replaced by the FIDE Circuit, making many more tournaments (not only those organised by FIDE) contribute towards Candidates qualification. In addition, a small number of players sometimes qualify directly for the Candidates either by finishing highly in the previous cycle, on rating, or as a wild card.
3. The Candidates Tournament is a tournament to choose the challenger. Over the years it has varied in size (between 8 and 16 players) and in format (a tournament, a set of matches, or a combination of the two). Since the 2013 cycle it has always been an eight-player, double round-robin tournament.
4. The championship match between the champion and the challenger."

Nakamura and Caruana failed to get more points than Gukesh in the candidates. Liren is world champion. You're clueless.

Tf do you mean. He almost got to the WCC. He was 2nd in the candidates.

I think Carlsen found it unsatisfying to spend a lot of time and effort drawing a classical match and then win one or two fast games.

I also think financial factors were at play. He'd spend a lot of resources prepping and playing the match & not really make enough after taxes and paying for everything for it to be worthwhile. Over and over. He has money now so a title matches money isn't gonna motivate him like it would most of his opponents.

Magnus did say he'd like to see faster time controls in the title match.

Plus Magnus has already won everything imaginable so there's a loss of motivation there. What is there to accomplish?

Yea - he did say that in some interview - that he just dont enjoy the format.