Or is the problem that he’s wearing khaki instead of the canonical blue-Jean shorts?

Yeah, but he’s also not the xkcd guy.

Day 1 wasn’t so bad, depending on approach. People got tripped up hard with replacing strings because of the old “twone.” If you didn’t happen to do string replacements it wasn’t so bad.

Day 3 absolutely wrecked me though - and my overall rank was still pretty significantly better than it had been on days 1 and 2.