I'm not confident this isn't more than a bit of a nothing burger. Faster smaller writes and slower bigger writes seem like an improvement based on the use case they will actually see. Sure it's shady. But it's not unforgivable and seems to be more of a sidegrade at best or a compromise at worst. Not to play the "but they did it too" game, but ADATA and WD seem to have done an all-around downgrade on their widely-covered drive.