Perhaps I haven't read an Ars OS review in a while, but this just comes off as an extended advertisement. Where are the valid criticisms that we come to expect

Perhaps I haven't read an Ars OS review in a while, but this just comes off as an extended advertisement. Where are the valid criticisms that we come to expect from an Ars OS review? Ars was once the king of opinionated and influential OS journalism, to the point of making the GNOME project drop everything to embrace Spacial Navigation off the basis of an Ars article comparing OS X to OS 9. What happened?