Claymore One-Shots and Movement Nerfs: EA, Be Honest, Not Reactive

While appeasement is probably part of it, I think the other is data. For the claymores specifically, I'm fairly sure they noticed how usage immediately dropped drastically after the nerf. Which is an issue as you don't want gadgets that see no use whatsoever.

I understand what you're saying, but in live service, I'm ok with the devs trying something and reverting when that clearly does not pan out. A bit more transparency on the process would be welcome though.

And I'm a lot more bothered by them spending time on stuff no one really saw as the main priority rather than sorting out more fundamental problems. 

This is what happens when you use AI coding and forget... or just plain don't know how... to write prompts correctly.

It's not that they weren't wanting to communicate, they just don't know what is happening in their game.  Communications is it's own team in EA.  It's not one of the devs sitting there writing out patch notes.  The devs don't even know they're pushing a bad update until it's out, and then the AI has already deleted all the historical data so they can't just press undo.

It's modern amateur coding.  It's in every game now.