It needs to be figured out if Bitcoin is ready for mass adoptions.
Results will be very important.
This test only cost 20BTC which is about $5000 per day, not much money for USA or Russia or China government.
They could probably even afford much much stronger "stress test" lasting weeks or months.
agreed. even some users here are obviously not happy at all, I like this kinds of tests. Will you share also some output and results which may help with future development?