Well, explain my point of view will be hard, english is not my born language, I'll try.
For me when you give 9/10 it's for something that's near from perfection. When I read "Design: 9/10 I feel that it could be made a bit larger, adding more to the cave and some more skeleton pirates etc., and the price raised to make this much better." for me it's absurd (maybe "absurde" in french and "absurd" in english don't have the same power... Argg can't find the good word) I cannot personnaly give a 9/10 to a set that's I found small, little detailed and expansive.
Maybe the good word is "overestimated" and not "absurd". And I don't want degrade his work, only point that I found that his rating isn't objective and won't represent the reality. Yes the good word is overestimated. Forget the "absurd"
The purpose is not of giving the 20/20 for the set you review, it's understandable that the PotC fever is responsible for that, or maybe it's rhum...
Capt'n S.