Unless they put that grandstand up on blocks, you are always struggling for run-off into that hairpin, hence the current chicane.
Here's mine:
Apart from the blue bit, which is currently a service road, it all uses existing track, and in the correct direction. Apparently there is actually a usable bit of gradient in Yas, but it's cleverly masked by the long gradual slope. When they run the short track, just before the blue bit, they call that section the corkscrew, so it could be worth running sideways down that hill, then back up again onto the main track.
The tight, slow, right-left-right sequence after the blue bit, look slightly more mechanical grip (street-track 90degrees), rather than aerogrip, might give someone half a chance of keeping just that bit closer, before they gently open out onto the straight.
I think that means we can now get away with dropping the chicane and now running straight into the hairpin, coming in hotter, and lengthening the braking zone/mistake opportunity just a fraction.
I dunno, it might even give teams some set-up problems, choose to optimise for the extra twists, or for the two long straights, that mix of setups might shake some overtaking opportunities loose.
How Tilke continues to get away with murder, I'll never properly figure out.
So, what you people got?