@EA_Arcadia You say to talk about it yet you don't give anywhere TO talk about it.
The only reason you're here is because this clearly got traction. If any of us had made the same complaint on our own in a random forum post, noone would see or care.
Just because it was incorrectly described as a bug, doesn't mean you can ignore it until it gets to you in a different way.
You have it NOW, its gotten to you NOW, so now is the perfect time to raise the issue, while there's traction. It shouldn't matter where the traction is from or how the traction is labelled.
The fact, people have been reporting it as a bug for YEARS, is crazy. Just because it technically isn't a bug, doesn't make it ok to have such bad game design that everyone's complaining.
This isn't something crazy being asked for, like actual babies, this is something that can probably be fixed in like two minutes. One potential fix (lazy fix) being what xo said, just change the text to reflect what's actually going on, everywhere needed. Which is probably what the team'll do if they ever bother. Though, with the evidence I previously stated, it probably wouldn't be enough to stop the bug reports from the people who actually know about this evidence, either via play or research.