You're the spitting image of the issue with datamining. You have already decided what this was going to be without any actual word from Blizzard and are now defending your mental image, even if what Blizzard was or is going to do with it is completely unrelated. For all we know, it might be purely for NPC use.
Fact is, we don't know if they were ever planning to give it to us in the first place.