That is fair, which is why you should not over-index on academic benchmarks. But a frontier solver should be within a small margin from the competitors in these

That is fair, which is why you should not over-index on academic benchmarks. But a frontier solver should be within a small margin from the competitors in these benchmarks. If you are 10x slower, there is no way you can catch up (at least not without a ton of work from the practitioner side).