No, he corrected it after it had been an issue for some time and was negatively impacting his customers' enjoyment of what they had purchased.

Throughout Minecraft's development, "barely good enough, and sometimes not even then" has been the externally visible modus operandi. That so many players put up with customer abuse is unfortunate, not least because others will consider Notch's slipshod development practices and infantile product management goals to which one might aspire.