I don't know where this myth comes from that Conor would've been evicted if it was VTE.
I mean Week 1 was he irrelevant and up against two of the biggest characters, Lydia would've easily been evicted. Arron would've most likely gone in Week 4 as he had been getting the heaviest edit out of anyone and he had a really bad edit during the eviction highlights episode. And then Conor was up against Shievonne aka the angry black woman of the series who also had the biggest edit that week. And then Caroline would've gone in the 8-way eviction anyway
Like I said, VTS needs to be tested more with the civilian series. It's impossible to compare 2 series of VTS with 14 series of VTE imo.
And I stand by the point I made in that VTE makes the show more hateful... you're paying to essentially show someone they're hated, where VTS is showing someone they're liked. It focuses on negatives rather than positive. It's easy to say "yeah but VTS keeps the dicks in..." er, yeah, but it also keeps other entertaining ones in who, whilst they might not be 'dicks', they would still easily being evicted in a VTE whereas they'd stay in a VTS. That's my opinion anyway.
Also another factor is noms twists making the whole house go up... if C5 really wanted to get the 'dicks' out then they could still do VTS but just do a head to head which is essentially a reverse VTE.