I don't even think the argument against it is an argument at all. The elitist jerks are already weeding out the weak with third party parsers, how would an official parser be any different to what it is now?
And even if, there's a simple fix to that: simply let everyone only see their own parse results. That way no one can tell how good anyone else is, and still has all (well, most) the benefits for testing purposes. Comparing parse results is almost useless anyway, because of all of the disruptive factors involved in it (some of which were mentioned before).


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