That discussion has taken place so many times *sigh*...
Since you are not so good at digging out archives, I'll do it for you:
treachery. This is the first thread in which Sil announced that FC had changed its mind. There have been so many other discussions afterward that it is rumoured that a full standalone server is dedicated only to store them.
If you do not see the problem with FC making statements that leads players to take a certain number of decisions and then simply changing their mind and thus making the previous decisions bad ones, then you are beyond repair.