This sounds as though you are concerned about something in your own situation, or for someone you know. What is it that is bothering you?
What you have quoted there is not the full story. ALL the regulations are here.
https://www.immigration.govt.nz/opsm...c.htm?6954.htm
Also, anyone who submitted their application for residence under the Skilled Migrant Category BEFORE the rules changed will have had their case worked according to the previous requirements - so some people you have asked to hear from, whose residence came through after the rule change but who submitted before it, may not have experience which is relevant to you at all.