Unless they have changed their response in the last couple of weeks WD hasn't done any backpedaling. They instead just clarified which drives use SMR and then i

Unless they have changed their response in the last couple of weeks WD hasn't done any backpedaling. They instead just clarified which drives use SMR and then issued a statement trying to gaslight buyers of their NAS drives that this issue occured because they purchased the wrong type of drive for their use case. You know purchasing a drive marketed as a NAS drive in a NAS.