Alzrius
The EN World kitten
You're right; WotC's recent actions have been the very soul of clarity, transparency, and sound reasoning, so I'm sure they never would have done something that could potentially be misread like that.I think you are reading too much into it.
If your intention is to get rid of them both, and it "costs" you another sentence to do so, you do that with simple and unambiguous clarity, specificity and finality.