Judgment/Judgement can be spelled either way:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/judgment

"Did You Know?
Judgment can also be spelled "judgement," and usage experts have long disagreed over which spelling is the preferred one. Henry Fowler asserted, "The OED [Oxford English Dictionary] prefers the older and more reasonable spelling. 'Judgement' is therefore here recommended." William Safire held an opposite opinion, writing, "My judgment is that Fowler is not to be followed." "Judgement" is in fact the older spelling, but it dropped from favor and for centuries "judgment" was the only spelling to appear in dictionaries. That changed when the OED (Fowler's source) was published showing "judgement" as an equal variant. Today, "judgment" is more popular in the U.S., whereas both spellings make a good showing in Britain."

Another word that has two spellings is "canceled" or "cancelled".

On your Addams all the dimples were so dense from the thousands of games played that they evened out.

The dimpling is merely more noticeable on a new playfield because they are not as dense until the game has been played a ton.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/playfield-dimple-reality-check

I don't know. You can see the similar dimples in the magnet core as well.

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I don't believe anything is clearcoated other than the wood.
It is the wood that is dimpling as well as the metal of the magnet core.
The positive in the dimpling is no signs of clearcoat chipping or insert ghosting (fingers crossed).

Are you sure it is not just the bright lights of ST highlighting the dimples? I feel that all my games have about the same amount of dimples, but I guess I should take a closer look under bright overhead lights to confirm.

Stern has brightened their recent games considerably so that is something to consider in the comparisons.

I don't doubt there have been some (possibly most of them) bad playfields in the last two years. It is the same reason I quit considering a MET Premium NIB in the last year.
Could the bad ones (the ST you describe) have been from the other playfield manufacturer? It seems the last 1.5 years the playfields have not been as good. The early ST were likely from the old/good manufacturer. Also games like ST and TWD have a lot of severe airballs as compared with a lot of older Sterns.
One example of the bad playfields was the obvious giant craters forming between the Pop bumpers where the ball drops from Sandman in the mylar area of SMVE. That indentation is usually not nearly as noticeable in original SM games.

I would assume based on the insert ghosting problems that all the early SMVEs had a FUN playfield. I don't own a VE.

If your magnet core is higher than the playfield and causing airballs then it needs to be adjusted to be level with the playfield.

Now, do that on the back of your Scorcerer and so we can see if there is any difference.

It appears the ramp flaps were designed too steep and too far in front of the blue nubs that are for deadening the missed shots. As soon as the ball gets on the edge of the flaps it is destined to fly off the nub in the air because the ball is already elevated when it hits the nub.

taking the glass off and rolling balls by hand I think

At least he was willing to openly discuss the problems with his game from the factory. Every person here is biased at times. It is the ones that never acknowledge the bad when they have skin in the game that are bad for the hobby in my opinion.