I don’t know about you’ll but having more teams can make the World Cup dreadfully long and boring too, and many will avoid watching the initial matches as the big teams will probably be clashing later on only. Also I too felt that Italy should have made it this year, but in the end it felt like that they ran out of desire to play at the World Cup.
Everyone is free to have their own opinion about the expansion of the world cup. Personally I would support the expansion, because I believe that addition of more teams means more diversity. I get bored when I watch the same teams again and again. And hopefully in 2026, none of the major teams would fail to qualify for the main tournament (similar to the case with Italy and Chile this time). If I was given a choice, then I would prefer a 64-team world cup, with representation from every nook and corner of the world.