gamesradar article

they've now gone from their arbitrary internal decision of one of the job design devs going up to the director to remove kaiten (i believe this was the most recent reasoning given prior) to "There were more people requesting Kaiten to be removed than there were that we're happy with it.". of course no quantifiable metric is given so for all we know 5% complained about it and they changed it for them because god forbid there be any source of friction in this game.

anecdotally, i think i can count on one hand the number of people i ever encountered complaining about kaiten before the change was announced prior to 6.1. then all the naysayers saying this change was good actually came out when pushback against it happened because these devs can do no wrong in their eyes.