One positive, is that the response was fast and direct. In the past, negative user feedback has tended to be buried, or felt like it, or ignored, or felt like it.

This time, somebody decided the only clean path out was to be responsive: to make changes which reflected community concern and to tell people about them

Which I think, is good. I vastly prefer the google which tells people it listened, to the one which says it listens but doesn't tell us whats happening to the inputs we give.

(thats the one which lies behind any three-dots 'send feedback' hooks in almost any google app or s/w I use: I never get the sense anyone reads it, cares about it)