You’re right, they said; “No, and by the way, you don’t want to do that either. You think you do, but you don’t.”
That was the quote the ignited the forums and plenty of other message boards across the internet. Backlash, feedback, ect. Year later they doubled back, announced classic, and then two years after that we had it.
While it wasn’t word for word; “We will never add them” it was taken as such with how it was presented.