MATT: I’ve said before that the “filter” is the most important part of the process.

Actually, before you saw the error of your ways (nasty dig, but you’ve earned it!) you said that the filter WAS the process. And if you’ve made this statement before, may I plead with you not to make it again. How can the filter be THE most important part? What would be the point of a filter if there was nothing to be filtered? Every phase in the process is indispensable. In other words, evolution could not happen without life, reproduction, adaptation, innovation and NS. Time to move on?

Excellent parsing of the review. The filter is properly filtered into its place. Let's move on.