Yes, they aren't changing course, but Discord certainly did not say "most" in the announcement and it was a single sentence in a long article about age verification and content gating. They should have been far more upfront about their inference method being the primary one in the first place. This was a communication issue and not a reader issue.

It's also possible they decided to tune their inference model to be a lot more, let's say, permissive so that there isn't a huge backlash of people getting asked to provide ID when they've been using the service for nearly a decade or longer.