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An "annoyance" is far different from insinuating unethical conduct or claiming that one is failing the EPPP because they have to answer experimental items.
Those are two separate issues.
I personally feel that having to pay money to provide assistance to the testing company - without any way to opt out - is annoying. You commented that it's low on the priority list, and I responded that it's still annoying.
The question of whether experimental items could contribute to unnecessary test anxiety, which could then contribute to poorer performance for some test takers, is not a mere annoyance. I don't think we can conclusively say that there is no relationship among those pieces (experimental items that add unnecessary time/effort to the test, test anxiety, test performance).