I did read it. You said: " the folks over there for years have tested and refined the products that the rest of the world uses. " That simply is not the case. Not remotely so.
As to verifier and DBT, they did not do that for any international standards either. As I said, they did that for encoders and such. International standards were designed using their own formal objective and subjective testing. They predated HA forum and regardless, HA has not played a role in their development in what the mass market uses.
Their role has been in evaluating encoders and various codecs for enthusiasts of lossy audio. Such a role does not extend to rest of the world.
Ok well I am a terrible contributor to this particular forum thread and you can label me as such. However, I think that hydrogenaudio.io has contributed a great deal to the DBT of lossy codecs. Do your tests "extend to the rest of the world?" Do any of the thing you do play a role in "mass market uses"? I think they do.