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I have no information on what happened, but I imagine a conversation something like this: "It's been 8 months, how come you haven't changed the URL?"
"Look it's complicated we need to assign some engineers to do analysis and…"
"Just change it everywhere. It's literally search/replace, how can it be complicated?"
"things will break unless…"
"Just do it or you're fired!"
"…OK, fine"