I am certainly seeing the same things on some main sites.
I have removed 100s of links and added daily content and filed over 15 reconsiderations.
Each time they continue to say the same thing – there is no penalty.. LOL
Yet one site dropped from 300 deposits to around 10 just like that.
Nothing has changed yet – I just see blank sites or one pagers still all over 1st page on google.
I do not see it as a success at all – far from it.