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Uh, you realise this article is about work in progress, right?

If you want to cast it in the rigid hypothesis testing language (not a very good description of the actual practice), the description is this:

A physically motivated modification to existing tools lead to unexpected results that are not understood yet. As part of figuring out the cause of the new result they are running a series of smaller experiments to test various hypothesis of what aspects of the modifications matters most for the new results.

In effect, objecting to the practice of turning things off and on again is to object to the very notion of doing experiments, which is not very scientific.