Happily rode it this very sunny morning.
Lots of twigs and leafy stuff on the first half of BKB due to recent forestingness, and it was hard to tell what was different from the original Barry Knows Best (as it’s now Barry Knows Better) but the second half with the nice whoopy berms was tidy and normal.
There was one pile of small logs right next to the trail, but nothing on the trail at all apart from afore mentioned twigs and ferny-leafy bits.
So basically, I’d agree with your drama queen bit – bit of an over exaggeration IMO 😀