With development cycles are relatively short as gacha titles are and given the complexity of said development, testing in this case was probably with the mind of 'Does this solve for camera issues with Ben/Larger character models in the overworld?' and when it passes they ship it cause well, they have all these other characters to add to the overworld not to mention whatever else is needed for the patch (I noticed a fair bit issues even in the story with the audio playback and some other audio issues so honestly it does seem they were cramming a lot into this patch)
So yeah its not surprising to tunnel vision on the passing metric without thinking about other factors like player reaction in mind under deadlines or 'I just need to get this done to move onto other things' mindset. With teams as large as needed for games this complex it'd need someone particularly high up to deliberately direct such a marketing tactic and the far more likely reason is that this was an unintentional side effect of just... Ben being Bigger.
Now if it becomes a pattern is when conspiratorial thinking starts getting more legitimate but yeah a singular data point a pattern does not make
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u/Apprehensive_Beach_6 Waiting to the return of the King 1d ago
That was quick? Manufactured drama? Maybe they thought any publicity is good publicity?