There will definitely be VR in ship / SRV / SLF on the 19th. No one is accusing Fdev of lying.
Oh no they didn't!
Reread what they say, they're spectacularly good at using weasely words like politician speak that seems to promise everything but never actually commit to or confirm anything that may (or may not) be coming in the future.
They never promised more SRVs, just stated how they'd like to do more. They never promised better Powerplay, just how they'd like to make it better. They never promised better Multiplay, just how they'd like to do this, that and the other...
English is a beautiful language for when you want to practice
DoubleSpeak...
noun
noun:
doublespeak; noun:
double-speak
- deliberately euphemistic, ambiguous, or obscure language.
"the art of political doublespeak"