Could be a "reverse" Streisand Effect. Any slowdown would have been pretty public, the microcode update is still a big deal and the expectation weren't clear,

Could be a "reverse" Streisand Effect. Any slowdown would have been pretty public, the microcode update is still a big deal and the expectation weren't clear, I'm pretty sure the results were worst than the average expectation. Now though, the expectation are much higher, people expect it to be pretty high and maybe the results are now actually lower than theses expectations. So yeah maybe more publicity but maybe now people will say "not as bad as I thought", instead of saying "much worse than I thought".