No, it didn't get scratched. GC told everyone to calm down a bit since there was no way the new feature could live up to the hype. Then he said that it might make people feel better if they considered their favorite part of the 5.4 patch to be the 'unannounced feature'. That got extrapolated to "OMG GC just said the feature is cancelled!!!1One!!!"
And I'm sure quite a number of people hate you. And no, they didn't up the drop rate yet. You're just one of the lucky few that got very, very lucky. That's kind of like someone who matched all of the numbers on a lottery ticket asking if the odds of winning had been improved.