> Fixing the bug and having synchronized patches out by yesterday was an industry-wide effort, one that deserves praises, compared to the jumbled Meltdown and Spectre patching process.

Is this a fair comparison? I feel like the patching techniques must have been easier to develop than for Meltdown/Spectre. Furthermore, if this affected the same kind of people in this community, maybe this time around benefitted from the communication channels of the previous exercises.

Maybe this isn't a comparison to try and badmouth the previous iteration, and instead just tried to show a general improvement in the industry—I just find it a bit unfair.