They're Touching Them Again...

So it looks like the PR department of CCP has scrubbed out once again.

Apparently there are changes being made to WHs that change how far away from a WH a ship spawns based on its mass, with the upper limit currently being up to 40km (which is hilariously outrageous!).
The first I heard of this was in this forum thread:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=362811

Based on the post, the change has already been deployed to SISI where it was found by several people.
There was no forum post, no dev blog, no nothing.  Just a straight release to the public test server.

Not even looking at the change itself, this immediately raises so many red flags in regards to CCPs development, testing and release cycle, not to mention PR, that it's no longer even funny.

As near as I can tell CCP didn't ask anyone if people wanted this change, didn't ask anyone for feedback and didn't tell anyone it was coming until it was publicly released on the test server.
Once again a change is being put in place in WHs that has MAJOR impact on day to day w-space life without so much as an afterthought given to asking us what we think about it.

To make matters even worse, this change is absolutely atrocious and the VAST majority of the feedback has been hugely negative.
Further to that, perhaps the most ironic thing is that this come right after several months of heavy feedback being given to CCP by players and CSM regarding changes we DO want in WHs, none of which have been looked at yet.

For those who don't know, I work in IT testing for a company that has a wide user base that we work very closely with to cater to their needs while we constantly update our product so I am acutely aware of how annoyed customers are when we change something in a way they don't like or do not communicate any upcoming changes well in advance.

In typical fashion, CCP has noticed the looming threadnaught of hate on this issue and Fozzie, seeming losing the dice roll, piped up a half dozen pages into it that the changes are preliminary and not yet set and that it's a ways off yet.  The usual back pedal nonsense to try cover a PR cock up.

Here's some free advice CCP:
Do not release changes to SISI without any warning.  Typically, changes get put on SISI not that long before release and as players, we generally assume that anything on SISI is in final testing stages and that it WILL go onto the live server with minimal further change.
Any major changes should be posted either on the forums or in a dev blog WELL before they are released onto SISI.

I urge the CSM to tell CCP to show it with this change.
It isn't needed, it isn't wanted, and it is very bad for WH life.