This has become standard operating procedure. Push your agenda until you receive backlash, then claim it was all a big misunderstanding, and that you are listening to feedback. Let things calm down for a few months, then push the controversial changes anyway.

People are picking up on that, and won‘t accept it anymore. I think that‘s great.

Current leadership has shown their hand and the probable long-term direction they are headed.

Maybe it‘s an honest mistake, but the community no longer seems to extend the benefit of the doubt, which is totally understandable. Fool me 42753 times, shame on me.