Pleat spacing has nothing to do with with the filter doing its job.
It didn't tear so it worked fine.
Why did you only run for 2500 miles?You wasted a good filter.
Yeah, old thread from 2018 way before the new Ultra without wire backed media. The one here IS the wire backed media design, and many C&Ps of those may show some wide pleat spacing ... which doesn't matter anyway because it's wire backed media.