Just a note to say the wording there was almost certainly not intended as a jab, subtle or otherwise, at anybody. It's simply the standard language used to indicate that it's intentionaly different from what appeared in a previous official source that will get updated in the future. I've used very similar wording myself in the various mini-FAQs and it has a history of use going all the way back to the early FAQ in the RS/CS era.

When I saw it, as I read it it told me that "we have no intention of adjusting this ability or changing it in anyway despite all the outcries about it. Regards WOTC."

Well, you'd be reading too much into it then. The editor who wrote that is not directly involved in gameplay decisions so wouldn't have any intent in that regard and likely is only tangentially aware of the entire situation surrounding GOWK. She simply copied the language used in the past. Designers provide revised definition. Editor adds in stock sentence to indicate it's a revised definition.

(I'm not saying it will change--it may or may not--but that sentence in the insert is no barrier to changing SSM if the designers feel it's warranted.)