US Sentencing Commission notices "Public Hearing on Retroactivity" for its proposed 2024 guideline amendments

As detailed in this official notice, the United States Sentencing Commission has now announced "a public hearing is scheduled for Monday, July 15, 2024 from 9:00 am–12:15 pm (EDT)."  Here is more, with helpful links from the USSC:

The purpose of the public hearing is for the Commission to gather testimony from invited witnesses concerning whether to designate as retroactive certain 2024 guideline amendments relating to acquitted conduct, firearms, and drug offenses."...

The Commission received public comment on retroactive application and is currently accepting reply comment. Written reply comments, which may only respond to issues raised during the original comment period, should be received by the Commission not later than July 22, 2024. You may submit written reply comments through the Public Comment Submission Portal.

The Commission also published an analysis of the impact of certain 2024 amendments if made retroactive. Learn more.

Especially because the number of cases potentially impacted by guideline retroactivity this year seem to be pretty modest (particularly as compared to guideine reforms made last year), I am inclined to indulge my usual intuition that all guidelines reforms ought to be made retroactive on some terms.  After all, if and when an expert commissions votes to change sentencing rules for the better, it makes sense to me that those new rules ought to be presumptively retroactive subject to case-specific review of why particular prisoners ought not get a benefit from retroactivity.