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Yet somehow those "SC people" issue this opinion without having seen the final paper nor the lab data on the original sample, which is presently being examined as part of the peer review process in SK?

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The final paper doesn't mater. If you are in the area, you can skim the paper and look at a few key graphics and tables. Those key graphics and tables should be in the initial draft, because the rest of the article is build around them. Perhaps the final graphs will be prettier, or they will fix some minor errors (like a missing label).

(Sometimes it's more complicated. The initial and final version have bigger changes because the writer realize it's better to select other examples instead of the initial ones. But in this case I guess they don't have too many examples to cherry pick.)

In this case, we have only a rough idea how close the leaked papers are to the final paper, with only one statement from a scientist at the national lab in SK stating that there are additional manufacturing steps in the final version of the paper.

I suspect there's a large difference between what was leaked and what will be formally published.

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