But Aaron Swartz did it for the benefit of other people. These fine people did it to uphold american values and enrich themselves at the expense of others. The law is clearly on their side.
Shuffle is very broken as it does nit perform a shuffle. Instead it performs random selection with replacement. It is much worse but the devs do not care and insist their way is "right".
This raises a simple issue: how would the non-experts in an area choose the most appropriate set of experts? In this case it would correspond to funding agencies or governments needing to decide on a "fair" way to establish the right experts to ask. It is very difficult to suggest a way to do this that would not correlate strongly with "highly successful under the current system". That group of experts would, of course, have a strong bias towards the current system.