How does GGG PR/Management work?

I'm a bit confused by last announcement and by how we got there, starting from last year:

1) To reassure people as 3.25 was already 3-4 months old, they launched NecroSettlers in November (low effort league) and gave themselves a months far timeline promising a late January update.

2) They went radio silent on PoE1 for 3 months letting PoE subbreddit descend into madness (weird but understandable, they decided to stick to the January timeline).

3) On January update they admitted that they haven't even started working on 3.26 and that PoE1 is low priority, so to expect any content just after PoE2 updates.

4) Pohx decides to do GGG work and makes a league economy reset himself, filling a private league in hours.

5) After just 4 days from January update GGG backtracks and teases a month long event.

Why not spare us the drama and just jump from point 1 to point 5? Temporary/Legacy/Void leagues have already been requested and suggested A LOT by the community in this months waiting... are they really so out of touch that they needed to see Pohx league success to realize that low effort league was much better than nothing for us?

I don't really know how a game studio works and takes decisions so please help me understand.

Edit: by the way thanks all for the constructive discussion, thanks to you today I learnt about anchoring practice.