As a potential salt avoidance tactic by an already salt blasted games development company , it would make perfect sense to do it in this way to some.
If one believes in conspiracies, and believe FD is stupid, then sure. Because they would 1) have to be stupid enough to accidentally come to here and reddit and tell us there was a bug they would fix even though we are supposed not to find out, 2) think noone would ever found it they changed anything if they didnt mention it again, 3) care very much about the rantings of some angry 'space game enthousiasts' so they would 'secretly' change it instead of just saying so (which they did, but hey), 4) yet dont care enough to simply not do it.
Angry people may add their own fantasy interpretation to the list of things to be angry about, if they prefer. It seems a bit... pointless though.
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