I kinda disagree with your whole analysis ...no one here is saying that the scores wouldnt go below 400...they might but if they continue drawing 4000 people every 2 weeks then they might not even have a pool of people to draw in 12 months time ...moreover my take is that the 1st 6 months of 2017 saw the scores being dependant on the no of ITA's issued however since June changes , CRS score is driving the number of ITA's to be issued ...how else would you explain 2 draws in 2 months in June & July & shooting the scores from 413 to 449 . As for them exhausting their quota for the year , if they really had exhausted their quota then they wouldnt have come out with 3 draws in August...Had they Come out with 2 draws of 4000 each in Aug it would have lead to an ITA to 8000 people in a month whereas coming out with 3 draws in a month with 2700 odd people also translates into the same number of ITA's in august but the score drop was controlled . I still feel they are stalling the no of ITA's because they want the scores to go down but not that drastically as they might want the bottom cutoff for 2018 to be around CRS of 350-375 which is only possible if scores remain around 425-430 at year end 2017.
For a person like me following express entry since its inception talking on facts rather then putting out some pointless things.
The things which you have said might be your opinion but your opinion should back some knowledge or logic also for people to believe.
First of all the thing which you have said that if they draw 4000 every 2 weeks the pool will be finished in 12 months. LOL
They were doing 3500-3800 draws regularly for 6 months and even 3 draws in april in 14 days of around 3800 people on avg. The pool is so dynamic thousands of people come in so quick that in 2015 express entry report around 60K people were in the pool and till now there are and will always be 55-60K people will remain in the pool on avg.
As far as you complaining that they could have done 4000 ITAs in 2 draws rather then 2700 in 3 draws so the fact of the matter is if you have read 2016 express entry yr end report it is clearly mentioned that 750 ITAs were issued between april 2016 to september 2016 because of workload management and whenever there will be pressure of workload the number of ITAs will get reduced because CIC cant compromise with their 6 month processing standard.
First of all 4000 ITAs at one time creates more workload and inviting in small bunch make sures that scores wont go that up and the workload can also get managed.
CIC dont care about the scores because if everyone stops improving their scores and new people dont come in the pool CIC will still draw they will not stop it.
It all depends on workload and on quota because they have given huge number of ITAs so now with the next quota coming up and there will still be lots of pending people to clear they have to plan ahead they cant just go without planning and let the things happen.