I voted not enough information yet (same on Bloo). @Boris - I think you forgot the advice you gave Jonny in the GAW thread.
I see a couple of issues to this.
1) The options left to deal with GOWK are now limited, and it explains a couple of things that I heard about changing GOWK. I suspected another SSM figure was already made based on some conversations, and this confirms it. In particular, the two options fed back to us were make changes to the card, not to the ability, or change the cost for GOWK.
2) Whether or not FLOBI is broken is a discussion to be had in late October or November, which is probably when we can again address GOWK accurately. I predict he won't be, but that remains to be seen.
3) GOWK was clearly drastically undercosted. Look at the major differences here people. Flobi costs 11 more points, has a less powerful CE (I can prove that with math, but it's a bit convoluted), loses renewal, direct damage, motf2, and master speed. For those loses and the increased cost, Flobi gains surprise move and flight.
If we consider Surprise move and Master speed as a basic wash, then basically Flobi pays 11 points, plus losing motf2, push3, renewal and a weakened CE all to gain flight? Who on earth honestly believes that's a comparable figure? By comparison, GOWK should be something like 85 points. Flight isn't even as good as it normally is on these figures, because GOWK is already immune to 50% of AoOs because of SSM. The only small advantage is the ability to move through opposing figure's spaces, and the synergy with surprise move. Well Boba Merc has that, and he only costs 58, and has hardly been called broken.
All of this is to say that GOWK by comparison is dramatically over costed at 55 points. Who knows, perhaps WotC did pay attention and they caught Flobi in time to change his cost. Perhaps we might have gotten a 48pt Flobi otherwise
In all reality, what we have all long suspected, that they tested GOWK against the starter contents, seems to have been true. It was a mistake, pure and simple.
4) So finally, what are we left with? Since another SSM figure is to be released, we have to understand that an errata to SSM changes both. I believe that Flobi is balanced enough at that cost to be ok. So for the moment, let's assume he will be, and let's make the assumption that he is playable at the top tiers and competitive enough in squads. Any change to SSM that is enough to balance GOWK, will make Flobi significantly overcosted and remove him from competitive play. Anything less, makes GOWK too powerful at his cost, and arguable, makes Flobi always over costed in comparison to a legal GOWK. So an errata to SSM like many of us wanted seems to be off the table. Now we are left with only the counter proposals of changing GOWK's card, or simply leaving him banned.
What is enough to bring GOWK back? In my book, it isn't perfect, but I think it's doable, is removing motf2 and changing his cost to 65. Alternately, I think we might have to get more creative and change his CE to something like, "+4/+4 to unique Republic force users" and remove motf2. In the end, we probably have to accept that a perfect solution isn't going to come, so we will have to pick one of the solutions that doesn't really solve all the issues, but is the best we can if we want to bring GOWK back.