You suggest that filing D paperwork marks a commonsense decision by the WAS?
Hardly. Plenty of WASs are all over the place, acting out, doing it to prove love to an insecure OP, etc... when they file D paperwork.
Plenty of LBSs are also file D paperwork for not very clearheaded reasons -- acting out, punishing WAS, and so on.
Again, I'll just have to disagree. The status of D paperwork isn't a clear mark of anything with the WAS.
But why does it matter anyway?
As far as marital status being so significant, all I can tell you is that for most people, once they are emotionally D, that significance plummets. LBSs simply don't get this until they are emotionally D. Nothing I can do to convince you.