@Harblinger I'm not planning to look into it, but if I had to give an answer, I'd read up on basic game theory to characterize the problem. maybe there are multiple optimum decisions and that's why it's so controversial, because both answers are technically "right".
with english being the lingua franca of the internet and spoken by tons of people as a second language, I think it will soon lose that weird nuance where adjectives have to fall in a certain order