Based on the below quote from Dennis, they saw the dislike of the new system while it was in Testlive, but couldn’t affect a change fast enough for when it went live. I also wouldn’t be surprised if Funcom management gave the devs a firm release date before or at the time Testlive became available.
The pipeline for updates makes them take a relatively long time to get out, but we got this input both from the team and the community before release. We were unable to perform a day 1 patch in this instance to get the restoration and fix out along with the update, so apologies there. A hotfix is in the works, but will still be a bit of time before it passes through all of the gates it needs to before it goes live, I just wanted to let everyone know we’re aware and it’s being addressed.