Maybe they were unable to get privacy approval for this access, maybe it was too much work to do so, maybe they didn't realize it would break the tool and this

Maybe they were unable to get privacy approval for this access, maybe it was too much work to do so, maybe they didn't realize it would break the tool and this is just an unexpected regression. (I don't work there anymore, so I'm just speculating - but I do have experience with the continuous waves of privacy work that every product team would be assigned)