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"The new profiles will be launching publicly in 1 week" It means a preview was already available in a limited way.

No it doesn’t. It means they finished a feature and were making it live in a week. Nowhere in that statement implies that there’s a limited beta.

Nowhere it implies there isn't.

You’re moving the goal posts and asking me to prove a negative. Absent any evidence that there was a limited beta, we can’t assume there was one.