Good general analysis, OP.
At this point, with a front page full of critical threads about the benchmark, there's no way they can launch it as-is and say they didn't receive feedback at least.

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And you had to create a new topic about this why.... ? No room to comment on one of the other topics regarding the very same subject ?
Who cares? This place is an unmoderated disorganized dumpster fire with a barely functional search feature that's slow as molasses anyway. Oh no! People are discussing a recent addition to the game with multiple threads! Legit, keep it coming. Let it cook. Worst case scenario some thread about "post your lalafell!" or whatever gets dropped to page 2.