Quoted from ExtremePinball:

Exactly! I've personally unboxed and set up at least 28 NIB pins in the last 3 years and I have watched most of them "mature" through commercial use. Starting with GB, the craters on the playfields began to resemble my Orbitor 1.
It's also when the "normal" ghosting inserts began. My GBLE had ghosting inserts. My GB Pro has ghosted inserts that get progressively worse every month of operation. My 3 month old AS Pro has ghosting inserts. My 6 week old SW Pro has ghosting inserts.
I trust MY experience as a professional in the amusement industry, not somebody else's brother-in-law's HUO game with 100 plays.
Something's changed.

Quoted from Jeremy8419:

Well, you're basically just trolling the thread, because you don't like the legitimacy of the claims of the OP.