AH has not change since the start- don't expect them to change
I was just chilling playing DRG when I came across this video by youtuber Ratatoskr, titled, "Why Is There Constant Conflict In The Helldivers 2 Community." I think it explains very well the reasoning behind why AH acts the way it does, with the monkey's paw style patches, the lies, and the broken promises.
He brought up how in the early days of helldivers 2, when the devs and moderators can act without any restraint, when they were actively fighting the community without any of the fancy PR wording. This is like during the first major railgun nerf days. We got Evil-Bosse, who acknowledges that HR wouldn't like his way of mocking the player base (customers) but did it anyway. We got moderators that banning players for not liking his furry art. This is who AH really is deep down, this is the unfiltered version of AH.
These types of people are the same people that are still at AH, they are just more "under controlled" by Sony, who is now their boss and doesn't like massive backlashes from players. The devs have always hated the player base for not going along with their vision of the game, the so-called "grunt fantasy". This is why the devs promise to not nerf the coyote but did it still in a roundabout way. This is why the devs hide all the undocumented changes. This is why the devs are actively lying to the community and not fulfilling the promises made almost 2 years ago. Sony is breathing down their neck, that's why they did the 60 day patch. AH can't do any of these shenanigans openly anymore, so they resort to these petty tactics. They have always been this same narrow minded bunch.