^Tonnes of stages have lots of sections like that, I just picked a random section. Doesn't really make a difference if that track had NO corners at all, that's actually kinda worse.
I wanted to show what it looked like when you're not glitching to get higher speeds like most other footage here.
Glitching f-zero looks like crazy fast, dodging left/right, but that's a different comparison to just comparing standard gameplay.
There are plenty of areas with long straights yes... but they always otherwise actually lead into corners, or at least something else remotely eventful like a corkscrew. The video you posted in fine as it gives a good overall representation of an F-Zero track layout, even with the flatness and all the long straights... but if you were to clip out a few seconds of only a straight section, and post it like "and this is what F-Zero is like", then that'd have been cherry picking to. It's obviously less likely to happen to WipEout, as nearly any given moment of a WipEout game will show the technicalities of it's track layouts.. but is someone rolled up with a gif of someone just riding the straight line on Anulpha Pass, I'd be calling BS on that also.
A story mode mission doesn't "make it worse"... that'd be like me showing some battle mode course from Mario Kart, or one of the missions from Sonic Allstars Racing and being like "that just makes it worse"... that's just silly.
Ps3 definitely isn't best Wipeout. Tracks are very narrow and just feels different
The best WipEout's are 2097 and 3 imo. Elements of Fusion have somewhat polluted every entry since (and even stuff like Formula Fusion after).