I hadn’t seen this mentioned previously, but had a couple days where I didn’t go through the new threads.
Anyway, the article is here, with thanks to Dennis Monokroussos’ blog for the link. I find it interesting to see what independent publications - ones that don’t ordinarily cover chess- make of certain events.
I posted this to ATC because it’s Time’s take on it. Feel free to move if the thread drifts it into a USCF issue.