Suppose you see marked improvement in your usage experience. Would you still be caring about numbers in synthetic benchmarks versus your actual experience?
In other words, could Apple give you stutters and long animations but a high CPU score and make you happy?
No slowdown on iOS 11.2 for me. I think an iPhone can sometimes have an off day - I've only run Geekbench five times on my 7+, and one test on 12/1/17 was slower than the others, but it was back up with another test that same day.
Several days after I did the 11.2 update last week, today it shows the same great benchmark as always, and my 7+ scores seem higher than normal according to the comparisons.
