It's just another of several good 6.5 caliber cartridges. No reason not to own one but it isn't doing anything several others have been doing for over 100 years.
Let me know which of those cartridges in a factory short action rifle has a chamber, barrel twist, COL and sufficient accuracy to take advantage of the VLD bullets at long range. When you look at individual criteria the 6.5 creed looks like ho hum another factory deer rifle round between 6.5mm and 30 cal that fires a 130 gr +/- bullet at 2700 fps. But when you look at the entire package, you realize it's a round from the factory that has everything right. Sometimes multiple refinements are a big deal.
Precisely this. ^^^^^^^^^
So many look at just the numbers, and that would indeed be ho hum with the Creedmoor. But no other commercially manufactured cartridge offers the complete package as described above. You can even add a few more attributes if you wanted to.
The story of the Creedmoor is more about what it is and what it manages to achieve rather than what it does velocity-wise.
