This is a mistake

The mistake was they knew that 3.26 will not under any circumstances be done before may-june and they delayed the band-aid pulling as much as possible, then they came up with the news at the last possible moment ("late january").

They knew about this before announcing new details about poe1 in late january.

The lack of transparency, respect for the og playerbase and most of all, love for the game that made them is astonishing to be frank. I may sound entitled but hey, our fandom's turn on the choping block was bound to come sooner or later so might as well wallow in it until it goes away.

this is what gross mismanagement of assets does when you put a noob with no relevant experience in charge