"Hence random noise. My rule of thumb is that when a thread begins to top five pages, it's time to move on. Everything important to say has been said."
So practice what you preach and move on, stepwik
I suspect he has, just like many others. What he has stated is his individual opinion and some readers take that as meaningful that no significant revelations have been missed in their read of the forum.
Quite a few of us are waiting for some new facts rather than a rehash of what might have happened.