There are probably really costs here. From their initial message in the post, it sounded like it would cost them “something” to allow all of the data to be arch

There are probably really costs here. From their initial message in the post, it sounded like it would cost them “something” to allow all of the data to be archived. I could imagine that the data for these groups was expected to fall into a 80:20 distribution between cold data and hot data (Or 90:9:1 between archived data, read only, and read/write). If you start pulling data from the archive or cold tier, then you could disrupt that storage pattern. Moving the data around could end up causing some kind of monetary cost. But it seems strange to me that they would actively try to thwart these efforts and remove the possibility for a great deal of good will.