As a naive person, I suspect that the timing of this being raised is just unlucky. ?
Even though we are on a tech world/hobby and changes are expected with the pace things move, I believe we can agree that the changes happening are in some cases a bit random and also too often (format changing annually at this point).
There is no way this wasn't foreseen 6 months ago when the initial changes came in and now opting for a mid-season change after people have spent $, time and ln2 to bench these.
01 is the perfect example as it should have never come back into the game for these exact reasons/concerns you mentioned.
Instead, you have other benchmarks that scale nicely (2x, 3x, 4x +) that don't get points (on multi-gpu configs) due to low popularity.
This kicks off a never-ending loop where no points are awarded -> nobody benches these -> they wont become popular.