LI AUS S1 Format

So after watching LI UK I’ve started AUS s 1 because I’ve heard it’s good. It has some great drama so far and I just finished the episode spoiler alert where Cassidy picks Grant in the recoupling to screw over him and Tayla (please no spoilers beyond that episode please!). While Cassidy isn’t perfect by any means, Grant is an ass and Tayla annoys the heck out of me so I thought it was a pretty awesome moment.

Anyway, my question is about format. It seems like the scheduling of recouplings and such is more predictable in AUS. It seems like the islanders know recouplings are coming, the host is always present for them, and there seem to be less fan voting situations where people are sent home or couples are broken up due to the public vote. There hasn’t been one “vote for your favourite couple” vote yet where a couple gets sent home. It seems like every week it’s just a predictable boys pick or girls pick recoupling with someone going home. Does anyone know why they changed up the format for LI AUS? I think there’s some great islanders but I feel like the change of format is taking away the shock factor a bit for me.