This is kind of related to the other issue of not having a trello board or another form of tracking coming changes easily.
We’ve known for months that this change is coming, we just couldn’t see how our builds would look with it.
There’s also been many cries from the community to change the lighting, praises of how it looked in EA (this is closer to that). I think what we see now is a combination of trying to bring back the old look and improve it.
But there are downsides to this, one is the changes to old builds we’re seeing. Then there’s the subjectivity of what looks great, and the medical conditions that are affected by this.