The people who were reporting these issues made false claims and presented them in the most alarmist and damaging way possible to Apple. They did this without

The people who were reporting these issues made false claims and presented them in the most alarmist and damaging way possible to Apple. They did this without data to support them and continued to make insinuations not supported by the facts even when other researchers showed their claims to be unsupported. It's certainly reasonable to question their motives.