Oh, by the way (this remark didn’t make it to the previous posts), I’ve long lost count of the changes (mostly related to Mercs — that’s what I used to be tracking) they neglected to mention in patch notes or elsewhere, unlike the community, including even this poster on some occasions, who have unofficially documented many of them quite thoroughly (for example: Hearthstone Mercenaries Bug Compilation - 25.4 or my numerous comments on patch notes), — so ‘no surprise here’.
Not equated — associated. Patches tend to go hand in hand with their respective notes (as said, often very incomplete) and ‘known issues’. As said, it’s not uncommon that the notes are silent (or even misleading) on some changes, but, in this case, the ‘known issues’ contained a possibly related bug, which I quickly linked for reference.
Anyway, in this light it’s hard — or even harder — to say whether the change was ‘intended’ or merely a side effect of another bug complex. Moreveover, it’s often been hard to tell whether they know what they’ve been doing or intended to do themselves , judging by their inconsistent, inconsequential course of action (sometimes there is an apparent design pattern, albeit uncodumented, but not always), so I’ve refrained from conclusions here and settled for confirming the bug in question.
No problem. In fact, your post was quite clear, it was my initial reply that was really hasty.