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Your twisting of the words is not correct. It may be your opinion, but you are wrong. Some variant of "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" has been in print for over 250 years and made by far more insightful individuals than any we'd find on this thread.This is PR invented by malicious people to gaslight the gullible.
The correct saying is "Never attribute to stupidity that which can adequately be explained by malice."
Even in the rare case where it is pure stupidity rather than malice, you are still dealing with stupidity so extreme that it results in accidental malice. maliciously stupid if you will.
Regardless, in this specific scenario there are two separate steps
step 1: the failure
step 2: selling the solution
The argument on malice vs incompetence only affects step 1.
in either case, step 2 is malicious. Because making someone pay for you to fix your own failures is malicious.
Again, this is a product in development - there are things that aren't going to work ... and players should be quite aware they are taking chances at bugs and saves not working, and changes in gameplay/action/art/etc.
What is more telling is that your quick assumption without any valid evidence to support your conclusion that it is a malicious action.