As you can sort of infer from my post, the only thing preventing me from assuming that Epic did it on purpose is my assessment that the difficulty of manufactur

As you can sort of infer from my post, the only thing preventing me from assuming that Epic did it on purpose is my assessment that the difficulty of manufacturing that from scratch, on purpose, is actually significantly higher than the difficulty of backing into it by accident. A lot of major "marketing discoveries" were clearly backed into by accident, as a result of marketers just throwing everything at the wall over time. But even if it was an accident this time, it won't be next time.