It's a huge game with a big budget so it's reasonable to expect that every change is scrutinized and considered before release; it's got a huge player base with many of them very passionate, opinionated, and knowledgeable; it's a high-paced multiplayer FPS where your actions directly affect the success and enjoyment of other people; it has a history of camping; the franchise is currently facing criticisms over balancing issues in multiplayer; a common way for the industry to minimise criticism for DLC and microtransactions is to promise players that any items will be aesthetic only with no competitive advantage (no "pay-to-win").

Company releases DLC skin for $10 that provides competitive advantage to the most unsporting players, altering the game balance in a way that leads to many frustrating and unexpected games for their players, who have to swallow their pride and pull out their wallet to keep the playing field level. Company makes a lot of money.

That's why.

Don't forget the inevitable change the following month where the skin is altered to be less advantageous, and people are upset that they're not getting what they purchased.

... and then they still buy the next "overpowered" skin that comes along.

> a pair of words, one of which was unambiguously resolved by an OCR and the other of which OCRs couldn’t easily read

4chan had a lot of fun with this when it was first implemented. Perhaps unsurprisingly, there very quickly developed a campaign to have everyone insert "n**r" in place of the unknown word. Many threads were dedicated to education, onboarding, and, of course, sharing 'trophies' when such a replacement was found to have taken effect in one of Google's products (Books, iirc?).