Making something easier to get isn’t the same as taking it away, though. Taking it away would be Blizzard locking this Vulpera after I did the requirements, and telling me that I could re-create it in Shadowlands when everyone else can play them.
If I buy a computer this year because I want a top end system, and next year my computer goes on sale, that’s not a slap in the face. Paying full price got me use of my system a year earlier than the person who bought it on sale. Same thing.