“Why don’t they just get rid of offside in soccer?”
Because it completely ruins the game.
People have thought about that and experimented with it before.
You can make it work on tiny fields but on a big field it just becomes endless cherry-picking.
International competition is fascinating because Bosnia and Herzegovina is playing against the United States when the country has a population the size of Iowa or Arkansas
Today I learned that the Bosnia and Herzegovina flag was imposed on the country by the United Nations High Representative after its parliament couldn't find a flag everyone could agree on.
And it looks like it.