You're certainly entitled to your opinion. Actually, I've
encouraged SDN members to prepare for rejection and reapplication even as they work to get accepted this cycle. That's not giving false hope. I basically say assume you're rejected until accepted to a program that you'd be happy to (and can afford to) attend.
If someone wants to look at the stats and the fact that interview invitations are still going to go out for several months, and say due to the correlation between application submission and interview invitation extension, they're going to give up hope of an acceptance this cycle, that's a legitimate choice. I understand the logic behind it. However, I recommend that applicants pursue the parallel tracks described above to maximize their chances of acceptance earlier.
Frankly if one looks at acceptance rates and is concerned about "false hope, why apply at all. Keep in mind that (per U.S News) at 21 medical schools the acceptance rate is under 2% (At KP it's 1.1%) That doesn't stop people from applying to those programs. Should people be more realistic in their application choices, probably yes. But a lot of people apply in the hope that they will be one of the lucky 1-2% . 65 med schools have acceptance rates of under 5%. Are all these applicants to those schools irrational? Are they all basing their application decision on false hope? If so, there's a lot of (false) hope inherent in the application process. And we're not even talking about the fact that almost 60% of allopathic applicants are completely rejected every cycle to MD programs.
Again, I recommend parallel tracks.