I know about the press release. I literally posted a link to that exact release in the OP. 

This is one press release in a sea of press releases and a lot of people will miss it. I know I did. I check the website periodically but not every single day and, like I imagine many do, I rely to a degree on CPEs and program alerts for changes in the code or regulations. 

The amount spent on making people aware of this, assuming the above release was the extent, was and is infinitesimal compared to that spent on the new qualifications for the EIC, CTC, the RCR. 

I literally took a CPE on tax resolution and penalty abatements which had a guest from the IRS and no one mentioned this. 

You expect me to take this one tiny press release seriously? Get out of here.