Comming Coming from my experience over the years as a fansite collaborator and owner, I've never seen them replying this question specifically, they specifically. They always give open answers to questions like this when asked or they just refferred referred to the specific topic being treated, but treated. Though they do follow a pattern of saying they have the right to reserve private information for the sake of change development, they development. They also use the same answers on these questions when addressed on private forums like Focus group threads, which I bellonged threads which I have belonged to for a couple of years, years. I've asked other fellow fansite owners and experienced friends and they said the same. It is quite difficult to mantain maintain the answer of this question not opinion-based cause like I said most things I'm answering here come from my experience, experience and the question itself is opinion-based since you don't actually know wheter whether there was or wasn't an official statement on this over the years, with years. With only an exhaustive investigation work on forums which might lead to nothing since the forum refreshes and delete old posts, its posts. It's the only way to answer this question the way you want it to be answered, so answered. So there might not be enough evidence on the forums for this, this and not many ppl people are willing to do all that, so that. So I'm going to base on my experience. There's no actual reason or official statement on this but I do think and it is a popular opinion they do it to avoid causing controversy, controversy and to avoid being biased in the terms of comming coming up with a -dificult to implement- change difficult to implement change. Cipsoft rarely to never has rarely, to never, have backed down on a change they announce and are about to implement, they implement. They never blatantly recognized they made a mistake and they pretty much keep to the agenda of having the right of preserve this information from the public and asure assure they are working to please everyone.
EDIT: I really wish you changed your mind on the opinion based thing, i thing. I could give you a better explanation on things and to my eyes a more sattisfying satisfying answer on this interesting topic