I also don’t usually have tomato sauce anymore. Pesto is so much better. The sauce is where bad pizzas go wrong: soupy, overly sweetened, KoolAde of a sauce is just wrong

I’ll also add the reduced toppings. We have a regional chain of wood-fired pizza that I’m a huge fan of. Over time I realized their ideas could go horribly wrong elsewhere, but they pay more attention to proportions, I went from preferring a deep dish mound of melted cheese, to a crisp flatbread with just the right amount of whatever