Well, what an advertisement for the European Super League this was. Who wouldn't pay good money to watch a match of such quality repeated endlessly each season, without consequence?
The one thing the Premier League has going for it is that if you keep churning this stuff out week after week, gravity takes over and eventually replaces you with Reading. It's called natural selection.
Now, we can all mock, but it's what came close to happening to Manchester United the last time they opened a campaign without a league win at home in three attempts.