It's not silly at all. It's how everyone sees things. If you tell someone it will be a 70, and it turns out to be a 75, they are happy. If you tell them it will be an 80, and it turns out to be a 75, they are disappointed.
Too bad HBD coders don't get that. Adding someone who does to the HBD team would put money in their pockets.
If this update works exactly as described, it will add more complexity to drafting and IFAs, as we'll have to consider age a lot more than we do now. Personally, I'm for that. Although I'm not sure making the game harder for new GMs is on the short list of HBD issues today.
It will completely flip how IFAs work. Today, projections on anyone over 18 are BS. Closer to 22 means they they won't improve much, if at all, so you should only look at current ratings. If they are 18 they will improve along the lines of draft picks. If I'm reading this correctly, projections for older IFAs will suddenly have more meaning than projections for 18 year old IFAs.
If WIS had taken on the far more simple and less expense project of coding anti-tanking rules and options, they could have left drafting more or less alone. This seems to be a crazy complex way to deal with a simple problem.
I'm glad WIS is working on HBD. It's fiddling while Rome burns, but if they are working on the game there's always hope WIS will decide to fix what's proven to be the real problems with HBD.
The only problem the should be working on is that there are hundreds of people who want to be running an HBD team today who cannot because of the way HBD is designed. Fix that, and you have money to fix smaller issues. Don't fix that and the game will continue to stumble along until it doesn't.