It is more like a game studio saw a bunch of complaints, and one of the devs mentioned it would be a super easy fix in server code, so they did it.
If I was a dev there, I would TOTALLY have picked up that ticket. That is an easy easy change for some sprint points and an early lunch.
I’m pretty jaded as a dev though.
It would be EASILY a 100x longer to write it in client code especially if you had to have an option.