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Keller and Wadsley (2016) have smugly suggested, recently, that the end ofMOND may be in view. This is based on their claim that their highly-restrictedsample of $\Lambda$CDM-simulated galaxies are "consistent" with the observedMOND mass-discrepancy-acceleration relation (MDAR), in particular, with itsrecent update by McGaugh et al. (2016), based on the SPARC sample. From thisthey extrapolate to "$\Lambda$CDM is fully consistent" with the MDAR. I explainwhy these simulated galaxies do not show that $\Lambda$CDM accounts for theMDAR. a. Their sample of simulated galaxies contains only 18 high-massgalaxies, within a narrow range of one order of magnitude in baryonic mass, atthe very high end of the observed, SPARC sample, which spans 4.5 orders ofmagnitude in mass. More importantly, the simulated sample has none of thelow-mass, low-acceleration galaxies -- abundant in SPARC -- which encapsulatethe crux and the nontrivial aspects of the predicted and observed MDAR. Thelow-acceleration part of the simulated MDAR is achieved, rather trivially, fromthe flattish-velocity-curve regions of the simulated high-mass galaxies. b.Half of the simulated galaxies have "wrong" rotation curves that differ greatlyfrom any observed ones. This, does not prevent these wrong galaxies from lyingon the observed MDAR (for trivial reasons, again). They, in fact, define thehigh-acceleration branch of the simulated MDAR. c. To boot, even if$\Lambda$CDM were made "consistent" with the MDAR through the elaborateadjustments that the simulations allow, this would not obviate MOND, whichpredicts much more than the MDAR.

The $\Lambda$CDM simulations of Keller and Wadsley do not account for the MOND mass-discrepancy-acceleration relation