That first article you cite certainly puts the whole thing in perspective. I was tempted to put an article on Arxiv announcing a new architecture for billions of "super-physical" qubits, but you've convinced me that not only would the real experts see right through this, but that it might bring me down to the level of some of the qubit measuring contests currently on display from the likes of IBM, Google and Microsoft. Thanks for the genuinely interesting answers, especially to the not completely serious question!