If you want to put your own spin on it so it is saying nothing feel free to, as clearly they have all the time in the world to do all the things they want right now.
Just like passenger missions
It all must be a conspiracy, and clearly the only correct interpretation of what was said was they never wanted the alliance in game in the first place, it was a mistake, and there will never be any alliance content, ever, all based on "next question"
If you can prove me wrong, i'll be seriously happy to hear it. But right now, FDev doesn't bother to even copy-paste ranks 1 year after the release, even for the next season of expansions. Do you seriously think they're THAT lazy?