The issue here is that they removed the section of the website that normally had the patch notes. And now also aren’t listing the official final patch notes with the date the patch launched. This is the first patch in the history of D3 that hasn’t done this.
Between the patch notes section of the website being removed and the final patch notes not being listed in their own section of the blog, it will be much more difficult to find the final patch notes and their release date several years down the road.
If you scroll down through the blogs, you can actually access every the final release of single set of D3 patch notes. I compiled a list for reference after they removed the patch notes section of the website last week:
By burying the patch notes for 2.6.9 in the S21 announcement blog post, it will be much more difficult to find the patch notes in the future. Also that blog only states that they expect the patch notes to be released on June 23. If there was a delay and the patch notes were released a day or two later, you would have no way of knowing that from the blog post. The only place the patch release date is announced is in a forum post buried in a thread. And given we lost access to the old forums, that forum post announcing the actual date the 2.6.9 patch is live might not exist down the road.
There should be a full separate blog post announcing the patch is live and containing the full final patch notes and the date the patch was released to live servers. It’s important for data accessibility down the road.