Go on then, enlighten us all. What’s the conspiracy?
You clearly don't know Angus history, before he was shilling for ARF, people even said ARF meant Angus Rolex factory. it seems that he now has moved to zf, he was the only one to share information about it and overhyped the release, then he dropped the metal test on subs (at the time zzf was dominating the market) (that test clearly affected zzf sales) most likely they thought with that test they could justify selling their subs for 100$ more than any other option in the market. After the first zf examples emerged and no one liked them, he disappeared.
He has most likely cut a good deal with them, hence why don't all td's have the zf at Angus price. As I said in my previous comment its suspicious that the day his review came out, prices on the zf dropped. Look the pictures at the beginning of this thread or any other pictures from the vsf subs, none of those watches have lugs similar to the one in his review. Zf strategy was most likely was for taking the market from zzf but back then vsf was not on the picture and they didn't take that in consideration.