Yeah, to be honest, even if i joined something like 5 years ago i actually started to actually navigate itch few months ago, for my latest game, so i don't really know how it was before... few time later the breaking news.
I guess that Collective Shout and the actual culprit are laughing at us, since no matter the consumer's reaction, in any case it's a win-win for them...
After all what they want is erasing all we players built and shared among us: what better way to do that than nuking the places in which we gathered and, as a plus, see their victims reacting by scattering elsewhere, instead of gathering even more than before and fight back?