Is anyone else bothered by  

No, you're the only one.  LOL

Flo is also guilty of that. They zoom in on the leader taking the checker but the announcers are calling a great race in three and four. ALWAYS.  I watch the in car camera of Kyle Larson and listen to his scanner every race both on my phone thru the NASCAR Mobile app. ($4.99 a month and well worth it. Trucks also).  It's usually just background noise while doing something else.  That's about all I care to watch and listen to.

Kyle is by far the simplest driver there is. They will give him two minutes of what they are going to do during a pit stop and his reaction is always "OK".  When they rarely ask him what he needs or wants his reaction is usually "Whatever".  It's pretty funny, then he drives the wheels off it.