I tend to agree that both routes are two star routes. But The Powers That Be seems to be a little looser. In the last two years I've gotten strong comments from two parties whose experience and views I very much respect (and who you know too, Mud):
1. Last season Jerry D (photographer) and his friends Chuck and Eric (or his friend Curt, I can't recall which) did the route. Of them, neither Jerry nor Chuck have a lot of Pinns experience, but the third partner did. They were adamant that the route stunk, that it was loose everywhere and not worth any stars. I disagreed and, in the back of my mind, I put their comments down to lack of love for and experience with Pinnacles. But I know all three of them and I've especially climbed a bunch with Jerry. They're too experienced to just discard their thoughts.
2. On the first weekend of this month, Alan and Tonya did the route. Alan is pretty much a master of mud by this point (clear down to having in his collection at home a chalked up Pinnacles hold that blew off while he was using it). Tonya's pretty damn good too. Their initial comments were very much along the lines of what Jerry and his friends said, although less vehement. They thought one star.
I ran this all by Jim, and he could see maybe one star. I think you and I and Jim, and our type may be dying out at Pinns. Does anyone climb any unstarred routes there anymore? Does anyone climb anything that involves adventure anymore? Sigh.