That makes no sense. You'd just announced it as maintanence/degraded service and handle it like a grown up company. If you lie and it gets out you trash your

That makes no sense. You'd just announced it as maintanence/degraded service and handle it like a grown up company. If you lie and it gets out you trash your credibility and for a company like stripe which handles money and is taking on some ancient and major systems credibility is pretty important.