A look at the RANKS AND REQUIREMENTS page gave me these thoughts...
26 months gets you up to shodan - a little fast for my taste. You can "learn" all your bb material in 26 months but you can't perfect it by then, imho.
Pinan katas are taught at the shodan and nidan levels - I believe this shows a lack of understanding that these were non-traditional kata created for school children. Are they out of touch with the history of their ryu?
They choose one Wan kata (out of 4) at an early level, two Potsai (out of 4), one Kushanku (out of 3), one Ji (out of 3) and one Rohai (out of 3) a shotgun approach that seems to imply they were learned outside of a systematic ryu, piecemeal, so to speak.
Do I think all this is bad? Not really, just interesting for an international standards organisation...
"Fear, not compassion, restrains the wicked."