I think it's too early to make these kinds of pronouncements.

The issues with, for example, PLD in DSR remained a problem perpetually, long after the initial clears.

But initial clears get... weird, and sometimes the decisions are really just entirely whimsical (like UCOB and DRK) and not tied to any big overriding meta-related strategy.

It's probably best to wait until a larger set of data comes in before pointing to this as a problem one way or the other. I'm not trying to argue whether you are correct or incorrect, just saying that I don't think there's yet enough information to make this kind of assessment.