"But others are apparently having trouble coming to grips with this fact."
And is it any wonder most all others are apparently having trouble coming to grip with that fact?
What great holes abroad were the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 16th, 17th and 18th at Merion East based on? One can throw the 6th in there as well if a drive skirting OB on the right is what-all someone thinks constitutes a road hole replication. There is nothing at all about the rest of that hole that replicates the Road Hole of TOC. So that would be 14-15 holes at Merion East that don't seem to use template holes from abroad that were attempted replications.
But of course that does not seem to mean that a couple on here won't continue to try to force that contention on Wilson and Merion East.