I feel like there's pressure to legislate out developmental delays to reduce the cost of early childhood interventions that are required by the government or something. Both things could likely be true but I've seen these pivots before and it's almost always done by governments to legislate away their responsibility by changing the definitions so that way they are controlling the demographic that is eligible for services and supports.
It's like the government telling people who are wheelchair users but who are ambulatory 10% of the time that they no longer qualify for services and supports for wheelchair users since they are now, under the new legislation, technically not (and usually they use some really icky term that shows their hand like this) "complete wheelchair users".
Very often the government in question will actually expand, or sometimes promise the expansion of, services and supports to the core demographic while excluding the rest to split people and to muddy the waters so they can say "We're increasing the supports and services to wheelchair users!!" in promo material. If they haven't written it into the budget or taken any steps to requisition funding for these "promised reforms", they often will do shit like renege on the promise later or they'll write it into the legislation for the next administration to foot the bill for once elected or they'll find ways to revise the promise down as much as possible through consultations and shit to manufacture a mandate.
But what could be driving this sort of potential cost-saving measure? A mass disabling event perhaps? I think you nailed it there.
That's just what I'd expect to hear from a generation that got handed participation awards when they were babies simply for crawling
Their tiny hitboxes still make them frustrating to play against though
low health though, you're supposed to use area-effect attacks to get a bunch of them at a time
https://twitter.com/builtbygamers/status/1856054726321942612
The image is from some anti-vaxxer
Also, according to the QRT-er, all that changed is that "they used to report the milestones as the median, but now they're reporting it as the p75 [(i.e. 25th percentile])" to "better represent what 'falling behind' means". Seems reasonable to me--you don't want people panicking because their child is at the 40th percentile or whatever. Wonder what the deal with crawling is, though
Finally, they had been OP for far too long, i was tired of having to play against babies every single match
Yet AGAIN there's no nerf to their sonic attacks. Unbelievable, the playerbase has been complaining how OP that strat is for centuries. The devs are mocking us with these latest changes.
