Some of the American forums are getting quite agitated about this, with hundreds of posts. There may be something in it, but I'm not convinced the source data is robust and it's well known that there is no standard for ISO anyway. But it all appears to work pretty much as it should, even if it would be nice if we knew what was actually going on.
Either way it doesn't seem that significant, other than it's a bit of slight of hand by the manufacturers. But if you want to go down that road, what about zoom focal lengths that fall quite a long way short of the claimed range, focus 'breathing', and f/numbers that are sometimes quite a way adrift of actual transmission?
Not to mention natural optical vignetting which often shows one or two or even more stops of fall-off around the periphery. In the context of that, a third or half a stop seems neither here nor there.
At the end of the day, one of the great beauties of photography is that you can simply take a picture, and the net effect of all components in the system is revealed. In this case, I've not seen any pictorial evidence that is likely to unsettle the judges. Just a load of numbers and a bunch of often half-baked theories :shrug: