I'm good with the nets being extended to protect the fans. I remember that September 1, 1982, game when Amos Otis threw his bat on three consecutive swings (
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/09...4530399873600/), with the first bat going over the Rangers (third base) dugout and hitting a fan that I believe may have been hard-of-hearing. I don't fully trust my memory, but I think the injured fan had come to the game missing an ear and when he got hit, blood was coming from that area of his head. It was already bad enough that a fan got injured, but that particular fan was someone who seemed to go from one minute paying attention to the game to then being a very unwilling object of everyone's attention, frightened and injured. I was only a couple of rows away, with my back turned making a hot dog for a customer. (I was a food vendor at Truman Sports Complex from 1982-88.) That bat did some damage. The Rangers manager said after the game that he felt that Otis was trying to throw the bat into the dugout, in retaliation for being hit in the back of his head during his previous plate appearance.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2635...2_amos_otis_2/
Anyway, back then, the nets just protected the areas in between the dugouts, but now they also protect the area behind the dugouts. I'm OK with them going further down the line, mostly to protect fans from hard-hit foul balls, but the nets also would prevent fan interference, which very much irks me. Down the left-field foul lines in Chicago, there was that ridiculous Bartman incident that kept Alou from catching a foul at Wrigley, but there was also that glorious catch by Alex Gordon against the White Sox, so I suppose there are some bad aspects to the extended netting. But, all and all, I'd rather not see fans and workers in the stands get hit by projectiles.