There are 22 this season, so yeeees, but given there are 30 appointments required every matchday (ref/4th/VAR for 10 games) you've still got to have at least 8 doing double-duty on a weekend. And that's before you throw in the obligation to provide some SG1 officials to lower leagues, injury, personal closed dates etc.There's enough referees in SG1, but not enough referees that they trust
Go back a few seasons, take away the 4 new officials, plus the fact that I think Dean himself spent a chunk of that season out with an injury and there definitely weren't enough at the point they made this change. So maybe they now have enough to consider reversing the change we're discussing, but I'm not convinced.