I simply can't believe this is the case. If the team is putting out information that says one thing very clearly in multiple posts and Pablo offhanded said replaced on stream, I'm assuming Pablo is wrong. These things are all designed and decided upon internally The team can't be expected get news and to change everything off a devstream comment, that would be a ridiculous way to run things.
a correction should have been posted ages ago if the information going out was wrong. Especially with how much the community talked about the extra rep.