"Aaron Keller gets that (people are upset). “That announcement was about an ambitious project that we ultimately couldn’t deliver.”

On one end, he could be lying, after all it’s not like they didn’t have working prototypes and cinematic for the new game mode that wasn’t deliverable

Or.

He is telling the truth. Then making people return to the office impacted blizzard’s bottom line more then they thought and was a stupid decision that they should end ASAP.