A reality of improving remote sensing technology and analysis. The science remains the same. If data supports classification, the argument is moot. There isn't an underlying agenda. As has been repeated nearly every time such discussion comes up in a thread, TAFB is responsible for maritime shipping interests, not just coastal threats. If data supports classification or naming and poses potential risk, a forecaster has to make a call. Nothing is perfect but it's their judgements and they have a huge responsibility, so why clutter up these threads with the same old points? Accept it, they're going to do their jobs, move on...
The thing is and I thought I posted this. The data may support classification but the classification has changed. It is ok to change the classification, but keep it in mind when making comparisons to the past. Non tropical or sub tropical systems are now in the same class as tropical systems, in the past this was not the case.