Re-reading the whole darned Frozen peek thread again: 1.0.9 Sneak Peek- Frozen - #105 by Razlath, I count only 3-4 voices openly against the proposed freeze-all-original-effect, of which only you @Razlath posted much, with at least three wall-of-text posts which attracted much disagreement and criticism… and I count at least that many voices saying it’s fine, and very many saying can we at least wait and see… So I do believe that it was a minority crying out in terror, and we get this neutered version of the effect instead…
Maybe someone can analyse the number of speakers for, against, neutral… I don’t have the time or patience… In any case, my experience in 109 now is that frozen may as well not exist in the game…