I think, equally as likely, teams would increasingly tackle the ball, to force the knock on decision

At the moment the benefit of the doubt seems to be given to the ball carrier. Just change that. If the ref can see or thinks he can see a steal - penalty to the attacking team. If the ball just comes loose or the ref isn't sure what's happened - scrum with head and feed to the defending team.

I'm torn on this issue. I like the rule on paper. If an attacking player's priority is on ball retention we go back to the old days of stick it up your jumper. It at least promotes an off-loading game. However, the ambiguity in making interference with the ball decisions does lead to frustration and a certain amount of gamesmanship. I'm not sure how you can promote an attacking off-loading style while cutting out the 50/50 calls. Without a solution I say we keep the rule as it is.

exactly, the responsibility being on the ball carrier just means they wont promote the ball, we would have far fewer offloads.

Leave it as it is, accept you will win some and lose some.

Not only that you will have people in gang tackles ripping and applying pressure. I think there was some clear as day light plays at the ball in that game even if they didn't have contact when the ball came out.

I think the issue is knowledge on technique. I'm not sure how much understanding officials have of why defenders are doing what they are doing. With more knowledge, officials could have a better opinion of what is lack of control of the ball and what is a strip.

But then again, the commentators that spout nonsense about the incident's don't help. They should know better than to talk down the officials and their decisions, especially as they have very limited knowledge of modern day RL.