I like to read opinion pieces that are pithy and well presented. I may or may not agree but I will think about the issue. In this case I know very little about the intricacies involved and its good to know that some people do. I've just recently converted about 45 Phase I IPSEC connections to AES128-GCM, AES-XCBC, DH Group 31 and similar Phase II. Most of them were 3DES MD5 G2, without PFS at Phase2 so I think it's an improvement! A big surprise to me was a major drop in CPU usage at the "hub" end. The hardware doesn't have AES-NI yet but it will soon be replaced and your notes have accelerated that change up my stack of stuff to do.
Sadly some of our peers seem to have forgotten to actually read the thesis first before shootin' wildly. I have quite a low Slashdot number and used to hang out there back in the day - nothing is new in the world!
It's more of a collection of pet peeves about AES (in general) and AES-GCM (in particular).