Wouldn't the solution for this to not be a bigger washer, but actually the opposite, a really small washer, much smaller than the star post just to get it off the playfield not touching the clear? It seems like the solution they took is the opposite that they should have done possibly. If you use a smaller washer, any pooling will be underneath the post and hidden, plus protected from chipping.

That would just be my opinion though, maybe it wouldn't work.

After all these problems, I still don't know why they don't put a 'smaller' washer or something under the posts. So the problem is that the posts dig into the playfield, and a big washer just makes the issue bigger sometimes. A smaller one would keep the issue under the post and out of view...if there was any pooling, you wouldn't see it at least.