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Understand and agree with that viewpoint. Torn because I love the idea of it as well, as a one off in 250(?) riders. Also he mentioned that he scratched last year after the early accident to Frank, so I wondered if that had an element in this decision this time. Nifty marketing exercise if it is because it got some attention.
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I don't see it that way. Taking the history of the event and the approach of the guy who started it, it's meant to be a race. Virtually everyone races it as hard as they can. If someone doesn't do that, either through equipment choice or approach, they are not taking it in the spirit it was intended. And they are preventing someone who would have raced it properly from having a place.
No-one can argue with riding fixed because that is what all bikes were at one time, and velomobiles are faster than an upright, so they are a valid racing choice. But a folding bike is neither of those, it just looks like taking the piss out of the race.
So I've just googled chpt3 Brompton and the first result is a link to the Brompton site which says they have just launched another batch of the bikes! It's a sales promotion exercise:
https://www.brompton.com/CHPT3#