A few of us here on CR some years ago and no doubt elsewhere prophesied this happening on Canon Raws thanks to underdeveloped testers reporting superiority in cooked raws when compared with Canon’s unadulterated file.
It reminded me of car magazines in the late ‘70s who, when testing a car, would put the driver’s seat fully back, irrespective of how much generous driver’s legroom the car may offer, and then criticised the car for poor leg room in the rear “when the driver’s seat is fully back”. Eventually car manufacturers responded by giving their cars limited leg room for the driver, meaning tall people couldn’t get comfortable, and let’s face it, cars are driven most of the time without adults in the back. After complaints from taller drivers, some manufacturers gave the drivers seat more travel backwards, but put a bolt in the frame that only dealers knew about which could be removed should a potential new owner complain of poor front leg room, but the underdeveloped testers would not be able to put the seat back too far and then report poor rear leg room.
Now thank goodness the car reviews have matured beyond this rubbish, and we are now back to cars that generally allow generous front legroom should the driver require it, even at the expense of rear leg room.
Hopefully in another decade camera reviewers will have matured to the same level, although I wouldn’t hold my breath.