I still see no reason this couldn't have been communicated to Epic, nor why Google felt the need to take it upon themselves to decide. Whatever happens now can

I still see no reason this couldn't have been communicated to Epic, nor why Google felt the need to take it upon themselves to decide. Whatever happens now can no longer be considered to be Epic's fault, as other than existence of the bug itself their response to the report has been close to perfect and Google overruled them on anything else.