Mark,
That list jives with my experience. Tim W missed your 12th point.
I am not 100% on board with the "woe is us, the greens got faster" sentiment. As a kid, I remember putting on 1/4" high greens that poa had invaded. They were bumpy and untrue. I liked it when they got smoother. You could argue that getting green speeds over "X" is going slightly too far, but as far as I know, the courses with greens over 12 on the stimp are still few and far between, when assessing all 14,000 courses in the US. Most are still under 10, and there is probably room for the top 5-10% to be faster than normal. Who am I to stop giving golfers what they want?
I found the first answer, "I don't know where you are going with this" to be one that probably would chart the course of this thread into this little micro mindset. I doubt that was Mark's intent.