Would also like to see Rachel Talalay back to direct. For all their faults, the finales she's directed have looked fantastic and she's pulled some excellent performances out of the cast.
At one point there was no general audience, but that was 1963 and they had some great ideas at the time that got and kept viewers interested in the show. People say the Moff did too much for the fans. Not sure who the particular "fans" were since there wasn't much consistency and the old standby of bringing back old monsters didn't work because they kept getting most them wrong and adding nothing to them of any substance or continuation... at least we got "sonic sunglasses" as a tradeoff, I suppose. But if they have to change the show's premise of time traveler that visits other planets and civilizations in various time periods, it no longer becomes "modernizing" but something more generic - and then what makes it different from any other show where people can see the same things? RTD (who has openly said he hated genre writing, probably because he can't write for sci-fi the way many other writers successfully had over the decades) never understood the format since his era is stuck on modern day Earth finding ways for Rose and Martha and anyone else to drool over the (younger looking Doctor since he's also said nobody over 40 or 45 could play a hero anymore (especially if he looks at the companion lustily as he uses a bicycle pump suggestively to activate the TARDIS engines), and he did make his first Doctor a bit of limp do-nothing hero and his era seems abnormally filled with young pretty mannequin people, especially after Eccleston left)... Moff was trying to merge styles (classic era vibe, with RTD's stereotyped soap opera approach, with his own comedy (usually R-rated given various dialogue insinuating various characters having sex) with DW branding slapped onto it) while putting in his own strengths... As a long-time fan (decades), DW has always changed its tone between incarnations. Even when the same producer/showrunner stayed, the new Doctor did have some differences - even if the underlying show sometimes didn't. The "the new actor is bad because Capaldi is too old or Smith is too young or Jodie lacks a wiener!!!" routine is not exactly surprising nor new, and the lead-up to Jodie's casting should not have had anyone surprised in any way shape or form to begin with. More the the point, if Chibnall's ideas for the show fails - and if he panders then the show will fail unless the audiences are so lame they'll think anything is in their favor - will the BBC put it on hiatus for a few years while he's committed to the contract? As long as the new Doctor doesn't go around with sonic lipstick and spends more time chasing for sex (regardless of gender(s) involved) and the subsequent free clinics the former showrunner sexpests never bother to bring up despite wanting to make the show feel more real (there's a chapter in its own right on how they're BS'ing the audience yet again), I'm sure the new production team will do fine.