Okay so? Is your point being I shouldn't be worried that some one has gotten it wrong? Being an engineer I am well aware that the consequence of an engineering mistake is rarely catastrophic and that engineers move on before the error comes back to bite them, if it ever comes back to the attention of someone who cares. In this case it only bites those of us keeping our cars for the long term. For example of an inadvertent error, Subaru dealers offered free oil changes for the first 36000 miles when I bought my car. Being conservative I fortunately opted to change the oil twice as often exhausting the service offer at 18,000 mi. Why fortunately? The dealer thought conventional oil was called for, when the manual clearly specified synthetic--I did not find out they were using conventional until I was paying for my own oil and they questioned why I specified synthetic for the next oil change, at the 22,000 mile service interval. Is it any wonder I hear about oil burning Outbacks?
Furthermore, as an engineer that deals in fluid mechanics, I am aware of the trade off between contamination levels and the amount of bypass. Is there enough filter area to compensate for the increased leakage from less sealing force or instances of open bypass? (Potentially less weeping/simmer is what one gets with a higher pressure spring on the bypass.) I wouldn't know how to make this trade-off without real data and testing, and life is too short to not demand folks do their jobs, rather than do it for them.
Finally as an aside, the engine burns little to no oil if I take trips less than 300 miles in a day before the next oil change is due. Travel for 5-8 hours in a day and it burns 1 qt every 1000 to 1500 miles.