I think we should give it some time before jumping to conclusions. As an IT person I'm also aware of how straining constant scrapes are, even to enterprise grade systems. IMHO this might be a simple case of good intentions, but bad execution and they just don't have a working solution to it. It very well might be that they'll find an alternate way of showing it to us but they just don't have it yet. Bad IT execution, yes, but I'm not pulling out my tin hat anti-consumer pitchfork quite yet.
I do agree it's a damned inconvenience though, no arguing that one.