They (AP) don't *need* to understand anything contrary to what it is they're trying to do. Do they?
Would we, given similar circumstances?
Of course not.
We'd do what they're doing: Ignoring the critic(s) and forging ahead.
The buggers have been defined every way from Sunday, my friend.
Now that they & their objectives should be clearly understood, even if by default of merely seeing the direction they move?
We stand ready to proceed to the next level: finish the job of detoothing the buggers.
The "free market" --as we knew it-- looks to have taken care of much of the heavy lifting, for reason or reasons known to the watching.
However the AP et al silently moves to circumvent the free market and that's where the battle ground is, right now.
-BTTT-
Point.