Quotes from the article:
“We still don’t know exactly what we’ve got”
“discovery could lead to breakthroughs”
“Maybe different species”
“My hunch is a single variable species”
Your comment is pretty strong given the sort of amorphous, conditional nature of the understanding of this as set out in the New York Time’s piece.
I think you're just unfamiliar with the way scientists work. The import of these findings will no doubt be debated in academic journals for decades. That doesn't lessen in any way their significance.
Yup. It's amazing how much evolutionists will take such flimsy "evidence" and then proclaim that they've discovered transitional fossils.