Your incorrectly interpreting the developers lack of communication as frozen in fear. However, just because they haven’t addressed this on the forum recently, the community manager has: she said in the next console update they hope the problem should be not be quite as prevalent. I’m not convinced, but said my piece elsewhere.
@Mithran wrote up a excellent summary of his concerns regarding this issue (and I share them). Unfortunately, for now we can only wait and see what happens after the next update is deployed.