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When primed, people will see things that aren't there.

but sometimes, people do see things behind the curtain.

The timing of talking about this topic does feel pretty strange I'd say as well as the GP comment noted?

My point is: You're never going to know if this is a coincidence or not.

And even if it was intentional, it's of little consequence.

and it's someone's job to think of that connection before publishing the release and they failed

The connection is a ghostly wisp, archery not having been relevant to warfare since the late 19th century.

No, and it's also not a conspiracy.

No, it wasn't chosen at random -- it had to be a question that any reasonable person would immediately recognize as harmless, but where the old model would inject a bunch of safety caveats and the new model would not.

> that any reasonable person

In short supply on that side of the Atlantic these days it seems.