Disclaimer: I haven't downvoted ya nor am I to support your notion (I understand this was quite probably a pure vent thread). Simply here to note some bits.
Roundtable vid in one sentence: "Here's what we tried to do and we fucked it all up." No sugar coating or anything just straight up lambasting themselves appropriately (not that I know, but from the anecdotes of others is where I make my assumption as a freshly returning player after at least a year). That said they want to fix this (imho quite promising) system instead of just reverting to the old for it was rather dated and a definite source of some frustration as well.