I'll play. Initially, I was impressed by all the hype of a 6.5 creed, I am not getting any younger and had a bit of interest for a lighter recoiling load but never really looked into the ballistics. But here is a true story that encapsulates what I think the OP was originally trying to say.
I have a neighbor that I am taking on his first elk hunt this year. When discussing the hunt he asked me what my limit was on a long shot. I will be shooting .300 WM and have trained extensively at long-range shooting out to 1200 yards. I said, well if everything was perfect maybe 1,000 yards (knowing that the area I hunt in that an 80-yard shot is way more likely than anything past 750)....how about you?
He replies - oh I was thinking 1,600...on elk...with a 6.5 Creedmoor, with a round that has never been chronographed and with ballistics he has never looked into.
That, my friends, is how powerful the marketing and mystique of the 6.5 Creedmore is.
So this got me to start looking into the ballistics, and I agree, for large-sized game like Elk, they leave much to be desired. I even had to talk to my wife about it to ask her how to break it to him without sounding like an asshole that the maximum effective range on Elk with a 6.5 is 4-600 yards depending on which of the "experts" that you listen to...instead of telling him, I sent him a forum post on the subject and let him figure it out himself.