Open to criticism and feedback != alignment and consensus.
This has not been our experience. Much of our feedback has been attacked or ignored.
Our monitoring of HAWG has been used to imply, as it is in this thread collaboration and agreement. This misrepresents a lack of alignment and consensus hence we stopped attending HAWG.
Our work on bringing accelerated computing to ROS 2 requires we regularly measure performance. We could not do that with the requirements as stated in the rejected REP. We released tooling for ROS 2 benchmarking in open source and ROSBag datasets in Creative Commons v4 Commercial to provide benefits of the tooling and choice to the community.
Perhaps you are overlooking your victory 
. Driven by your initiative, a commercial quality tooling for benchmarking accelerated computing in ROS 2 is available in open source.