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You're right: the deployment was slower than it should have been and I'm sure Cirrus will be looking at that. That said, it still made it to horizontal under the chute in just over 400 feet of altitude loss.
The aircraft was almost certainly over max weight and will have had a permit for that. The CG question is not so straightforward as the problem with the ferry tank will have meant that the pilot was not draining it as he flew to the rescue ship. I don't know whether that would have had any influence on the CG at the time of the deployment or if it would have made a difference to the chute extraction.
FWIW I know the company doing the ferry flight quite well: they are extremely professional about everything they do and are also a leading Cirrus training company. In fact I did my own IR with them.
