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Holy mother of God!!! I would not want that thing anywhere near my bushings (fork or otherwise)!! For real, as @Dave_Camp said this thing will do all kinds of nasty stuff to the bushings besides burnish it to size. This is what is recommended by GGB for their DP4 bushing (steel backed, sintered bronze and teflon coated, looks very much like the stuff that is used in shock eyelets, probably very different to what is used in fork lowers): https://www.ggbearings.com/en/our-products/metal-polymer-bearings/dp4

Am I showing my age, or you showing your lack of age?

The people who are interested in these test results are the ones changing their pads and rotors! (Edit: although it's pad compounds I'm concerned about, per the original comment) The test wasn't even internally consistent. In some cases they have different OEM compounds within the same brand, meaning all that effort was a waste. Although given this is page 51, I doubt I'm adding anything new here.

I'm baffled by the apparently random selection of OEM pad compounds

Yeah, there's too many red flags in the data to take it as gospel. I'm not the sort of person who demands a full engineering report to back up every scrap of data before i believe anything, but in this case it just doesn't seem like they had a reliable testing methodology.

We talk about the tech and the rumors until there is new tech and rumors to talk about. I don’t understand what you haters are getting confused about. Thread derailleurs are part of the game, baby.

Looks like the part is machined but it really doubt it's cast - works for lower on rsu forks, wouldn't work for the crown and steerer. And with Intend sales numbers die casting anything (to get a decent casting quality) is a no go. Better to just start off with a block of aluminium. As for threaded crown race, no way are you putting enough axial force on that thread to make it work better than a pressed in interference fit that we have these days...