You didn't catch my previous posts then. Hot Toys have never done any head sculpt, including faces, masks or otherwise, that precisely matches the actor/prop. And to this you can add the other variances, of which there are always at least a handful, with every single character release. But taken as a whole, however, HT tend to release the best all-around product in the industry.
So… What's the big deal? Where does one draw the line? Sure I can see issues, but I can also see them in many other places on every single HT release, past, present and unreleased.
Usually what happens is that someone here complains loudly about some specific issue and then a page later they don't even realize what sculpt/mod/whatever they're looking at in someone else's photo. I didn't buy DX12 intending it to be a kit or project, so I'm leaving mine stock - something I know flies in the face of the opinions of some people here in this thread.
So in answer to the question of "how badly did HT get the cowl?"
Not very badly at all.