Ken likes to hide in the scientific side of things. The place where there's perfect conditions for optimal results. Not the real world. There's no sense in arguing with him. Just agree like you would when you aging grandfather tells you the same story he's told you everytime you see him.
My 2017 High Country (using this truck because it was the only truck I did nothing to but deactivate AFM) got and average of 20mpg for the first 22k km. Then I disabled AFM and for the following 20k km it got an average of 20mpg. Were the conditions the exact same over the 22k km and 20k km, no. But my driving habits stayed the same. And they were both a fairly long "test" for averaging. During both the truck saw, highway travel, stop and go, mixed driving, winter, and summer blend fuels, windy days, not so windy days, tow, not tow, you get the picture. Real world conditions and settings, and the AFM didn't make a lick of difference on any of the trucks.