> It was an announcement on our forum for our userbase to explain why the last update introduced major issues with lag, how that happened, that it wasn't specific to GrapheneOS and that we were highly prioritizing working on it.

Whatever your 'reasons', the consequences are the same. Of course you know that "announcement on our forum for our userbase" can spread much more widely than that.

To lead successfully, we can't just do what we want and ignore the consequences. A leader's job is to get the best consequences.