The "theory" might've been more believable had Hughes de Chaunac not been the spokesperson for it
Anyway there are three remaining good qualities about P2:
1. Retained tire war
2. All chassis look visually great
3. Spec is lame and goes against everything related to "prototype" but even that is preferable to GTE/upcoming-P1 BoP (the jokers for non-Orecas were sort of bop yes but jut one-time I guess)