Viper Changes Thread - Share your thoughts

[Lyth]

I don't really understand this statement in the interview:

Eventually, we just went through with adjusting what we had initially planned, and that was unrelated to the community feedback. However, I believe probably there was some misunderstanding on the community's part.

given that the 7.05 Job Adjustments Overview section at the bottom of the Job Actions page specifically states this:

We've received feedback that viper's unique combo system, and the managing of its combo routes, have proven relatively difficult to handle compared to other melee DPS jobs. We believe one of the reasons for this has to do with the action Dread Fangs and its status effect Noxious Gnash─more specifically, finding the most opportune time to reapply and maintain this effect on enemies. To address this issue, we've removed Noxious Gnash and replaced it with Honed Steel and Honed Reavers, effects that are applied to self.

This is still written there on the official site, even now. Don't these two statements completely contradict each other? Where was our misunderstanding in this?

[CKNovel]

given that the 7.05 Job Adjustments Overview section at the bottom of the Job Actions page specifically states this:

This is still written there on the official site, even now. Don't these two statements completely contradict each other? Where was our misunderstanding in this?

In JP it also uses the word "feedback" so it can't be a mistranslation.

There's one scenario where this statement would be not a contradiction:
The feedback has been received before 7.0 and from a party other than the community.
Therefore it can only originate from their playtester.

And this would explain a lot about the feeling of disconnections between changes and feedback.