This is likely what happened, but as I said in another thread:
The longer they wait to give us a response, the worse the outcome will be if (and I do mean “if”) they ever do give us a response.
Even if they said the above, verbatim, tomorrow, the reaction would be “then why the hell did you not say that in 2022?”
If they said something similar with “other pressing issues have taken priority”, then the reaction would be “like? Adding new game modes no one asked for instead of the Solo Mode that was announced almost 2.5 years ago” or “ok, understandable, but the major issues have been mostly fixed and the new major complaints are lack of earnable aquilas, lack of solo mode, the fomo shop, and lack of mission select, so what’s the new priority, hope it’s one of those…”
Edit:
Good ole Occam’s Razor