No, you're not being fair.
You're being disingenuous trying to equate changing the CPI with a dictator firing people for presenting numbers not consistent with his lies.
The earlier you course-correct, or OTOH deviate, the more outsized the effect on your destination.
Remember when GNP was fired and replaced with GDP? And how it got that way?
That should be easy to pinpoint.
If not, you pretty much had to be there, and it would take some math back then that wouldn't do you any good at this point now.
No, you're not being fair.
You're being disingenuous trying to equate changing the CPI with a dictator firing people for presenting numbers not consistent with his lies.