It is a progress, but not an advancing-the-state-of-the-art progress. Often "progress" is used to mean an advancing-the-state-of-the-art kind in some context. I

It is a progress, but not an advancing-the-state-of-the-art progress. Often "progress" is used to mean an advancing-the-state-of-the-art kind in some context. I believe this is the case here. So you are just disagreeing on the definition.