Comment by MacsHeadroom

This paper does not support your position any more than it supports the position that the problem is tokenization.

This paper posits that if the authors intuition was true then they would find certain empirical results. ie. "If A then B." Then they test and find the empirical results. But this does not imply that their intuition was correct, just as "If A then B" does not imply "If B then A."

If the empirical results were due to tokenization absolutely nothing about this paper would change.