Apart from Sky fans for whom cycling didn't exist prior to 2012, yes it is.
So, I'm a better class of cycling fan because I've been watching the tour since the 1980's and spent much of the 90's having to put up with lies and nonsense from the UCI and the likes of Marco Pantani, Jan Ullrich, Erik Zabel, the entire Festina team and of course Lance Armstrong, to name just a few? Was that supposed to be some kind of initiation into the real world of cycling fandom and anyone who missed out on the 'wonders' of the era and those before are not worthy enough to form their own opinion?
I don't buy this snobbery that recent converts to cycling are somehow lesser educated and not worth our acknowledgement. I don't own Sky kit, I don't particularly like the way they race but the fact it's brought a million new fans into a dying sport and reinvigorated it, to the point that such conversations about it's dark past and known bad apples are brought kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
As far as I'm concerned the only bad thing about this is the fact I'm finding it hard to avoid the results of major races before I've had a chance to get home to watch the highlights now it's in the popular press and radio sports bullitens.