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^ Yep. It's as bad as it gets. Their defense amounted to "well durrr you should've checked the website"

I don't know which explanation is worse, that this was a malicious attempt to "gotcha" people in a way that would generate fine revenue, or that they were so clued out that they genuinely did not understand why burying an important rule change on a website that no one ever consults was not such a great idea.