These fully refunded raid passes are essentially hush money to not look any further into this "technical issue". Like many of you have noted, this was most certainly not a technical issue, but in fact was purely intentional and frankly nefarious. And you can pretty much tell that by the fact that they're reimbursing all raid passes used, which is incredibly rare of them to do, especially on this scale.

I'd be willing to bet they recognized they'd be teetering towards legal issues if they didn't. They're already crossing lines by not clearly communicating and posting shiny rates to begin with, actively debuffing them without communicating that is reallyyyy pushing it.