It isn't nitpicking, several staff members made posts on the forums that had glaring inconsistencies and misleading statements in them and now people are wondering why that happened. Hoyt labeled it a "bug" (wasn't a bug at all), claimed it allowed players to "generate gralats" (it doesn't, they actually lose gralats), and also claimed that he couldn't disclose the "exploit" because Upload Tokens don't fix it (which they apparently do).

If you guys don't want players expressing their concerns in instances like this then I think you should announce things with more clarity, it's not too hard. The real reason for this change is way more acceptable than the reason it was carefully framed as. The Classic players have all the right in the world to question weird stuff like this when people who don't even play the server come along out of nowhere and make these changes.