Rockhopper normal "cracks" around serial number?

those holes are for cable guides

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looking at it again...it looks like thicker paint and something
was masking the center...not a metal crack

so I am changing my opinion from busted to functions as designed
ugly, but just paint.

No official news yet but I believe I figured it out. Got out the magnifying glass & started picking at it with my fingernails. Looks like the frame is stamped then they hit it with a quick spray paint. Then they cover the the stamping with a masking tape (blue) & either spray or powder coat the frame thick--thick enough that if they did not mask the stamping it would fill it in enough it woudl be hard to read. After that they take a knife by hand & try to cut around the masking tape to break the paint, then peel off the tape to reveal the stamping under neath. The knife cut is not perfectly straight & on mine they rounded the corner leaving a corner of the tape behind. You can definitely feel the difference in the thickness of paint outside the serial number "box" where the tape woudl be & when picking at it I kind of revealed the blue of the tape.
Definitely relieved.