I believe the parser issue was genuinely solved up until the point that Yoshi-P decided that Stone, Sky, Sea shouldn't a mandatory thing. It may well prevent new/bad players from feeling pressure and stress to play the game to an acceptable standard, but I don't think he realises just how stressful it can be to play with genuinely awful players in the DF on EU/NA serves.

I may be being far too cynical, but I've come to the conclusion the whole parser debate is completely worthless - bads will always be bads, people will continue to give overly extreme arguments for both sides, and people that genuinely want to use parsers for progression are already using them.

The dead horse has been flogged so much on this topic I'm sure we've had to find another dead horse to replace the original one.