My job as a technical reviewer is to take the cover off piece of audio equipment and show where it is weak. You can choose to buy it, or not. Separately, the hope is that manufacturer sees that performance shortcuts are now revealed and is costing them some sales, hopefully causing future products to perform better. If I gave a pass to everything regardless of performance, then there is no point in measuring them. We deserve better execution than what we see here.
This seems fair to me. The limitations of the DAC in this line of Bluesound streamers are now well known to ASR participants, even those of us who on other grounds find the streamer to be a good one. They might want to consider a version without a DAC, at a somewhat lower price, if they don't want to go through the trouble of including one that competes with the many excellent alternatives now in the market.