Well, I am not making judgements here - that team "only" needs to recreate what once there was there in a pre-defined time frame / patch. They don't invent, don't implement new things. Do they know what the target audience is? Looking at the last year of thread here, the Classic audience had different ideas, they are NOT all on the same page.
But yeah...I also like the communication, well..this list here that we are commenting on. If any dev would have dared to communicate that way in retail, this forum would demand to fire him because "that is not how you talk to paying customers"