"Not mention of them not being ARM native?" "Take my word for it?"
Why would everyone be lying about this? I assure you, these are "actual facts" (it's a term I invented - means the opposite of "fake news").
I'm using them in real-life on my 2021 M1 Macbook Pro on Reaper. The native (ARM64) and bridged (Intel) VST2 plugins both work in Reaper, but they show up differently and you can tell which are which just from the plugin names. This is real.