Well the day has come, SUP is now acknowledged as something that is fun and acceptable according to surfline.
Here is the article if you haven't seen it yet:
Diversionary tactics
Nothing groundbreaking but basically they are validating SUP as something to do if and only if its flat, so downwinding is officially acceptable. I wonder how long it will take, if ever, when they routinely showcase the other aspects of SUP, like surfing. I also wonder how many crawlers will look at this and say, yeah its cool to downwind when its flat (because they read it on surfline)