They are writing an application guide, you know. This is something that has been planned from the start, and probably would have eliminated like half of the complaints if people had just relaxed and waited a bit.

No one is going to be expected to guess at what the mods want. The mods are going to do everything they can to make help out applicants. This is only being announced before anything else because it gives applicants more time to take it into consideration while writing apps, because they didn't want to drop it on everyone when there wasn't much time left to do anything about it.

Rather than everyone worrying on and on about all this, if everyone would just chill for a bit all your concerns will be addressed.