It’s true that ITER will not produce net power and that the administrators have misled the public about the difference in Q factors. You can have a reactor which produces more thermal power than you put in to it that is still a net power drain when you factor in the rest of the plant operations to keep it going. All clearly explained in this great video.

https://youtu.be/LJ4W1g-6JiY

There is a real risk that by focusing on the wrong Q factor you sink all your budget in to plants which can never work as a real power plant.

Still I am hopeful that ITER will be sufficiently valuable as a research system that we do move closer to commercial fusion power.