Lack of word is not lack of action or internal discussion. They’re slow, realllly slow, but I don’t think they’re stupid. They know an action is necessary, and they know anything short of bans for this level of egregious exploiting is going to be met with serious anger.
In the meantime I assume they haven’t taken action as they’re looking for further ways to help recognise and prevent it happening more in future.
Same thing happened for the attribute purchasing exploit, silence until they could stop it and take actions against those that used it.
I think most of us expect an action to be taken eventualllllly, we’re just frustrated that it isn’t happening sooner given that people are using these exploited equips in pvp. If it were pve only I really couldn’t care less as it’s not really competitive except on worldbosses, but when it affects pvp every single day it should have been an immediate action, not this slow.