AMEN. I totally agree with this, Uber was 100% right on these decisions. My response is here: https://medium.com/@cdll/im-also-able-to-bypass-the-uber-one...
All of your other points are "I don't believe him" and "here is some unrelated technical information about uuids that while correct is not really the point". Cool, good for you. Didn't need to put that in a blog post though.