Other than possibly David Ohlasso or James McGinty, none of the shooters I run with in IDPA have either seen someone shoot a Master class Classifier or know of someone how had. Most of the Masters I am familiar with other then David & James got their rank by a match bump.
I have yet to shoot the new classifier, hopefully the beginning of next month, so I have no real opinion of the new classifier harder or easier.
I will tell you that the new 1 second for each point down penalty has me rethinking may match strategy. Where I would not take a makeup shot for a -1 I am now giving it serious thought.