No, they removed it because someone who was level 2 or higher reported it.
As has been previously posted many times, this is not the place to look for a “formal” answer from Apple for anything. To communicate with Apple use the Contact Support link at the top of this page. You still won’t get a “formal” answer unless one has been proposed by engineering and approved by Marketing and Apple’s legal department, but it will help Apple identify the extent of the problem and prioritize fixing it.
With any software product as complex as iOS at any point in time there are thousands of bugs. It is impossible to fix all of them, and any time you fix one there is a finite probability of causing another one. So the known bugs are sorted into a priority list, with the most critical ones (security vulnerabilities) at the top. Ones that cause the phone to crash are near the top, along with bugs that interfere with normal operation, followed by those that have a workaround. Bugs that are purely cosmetic and don’t affect operation or use of the phone, such as an Apple logo that flashes a couple of times when doing a cold start are pretty near the bottom. And as most people rarely (or never) actually turn off their phone this one affects amazingly few people.