Quote Originally Posted by JadedDM View Post
You're assuming Paradox is some kind of hive mind. They aren't. Isn't it possible that one dev in particular said they were removing the words, it caused a kerfuffle, and PR stepped in and said that's not what he meant, it was a miscommunication?
Most likely. Based on the RPS article it sounds like the author "ambushed" them with a somewhat loaded question, to which whoever was replying was attempting to not appear as the poster child of extremists. Since Paradox are Swedish that's one of the easiest buttons to push.

Also I don't see exactly what this "RPS author hostility" towards CK2 is supposed to be.