Interesting read indeed, thanks for sharing.
3rd party reviews in this area are usually scarce, so a documented paper is wow.
And the results will help Monero evolve even more.
It may lead to some speculation on the price, which was falling for some time along with Bitcoin...
On a happier not Monero was getting close to a new scheduled fork and maybe the easier-to-implement fixes will already come live in ~9 days.