I dislike these kind of statements and the topics that flow from them.
This is not a dev statement. This is reported speech, from someone who spoke to a dev. We don't know how trustworthy that someone is, we don't know what question they asked and how they asked it, we don't know how the question was interpreted, we don't know what answer was given, and we don't know how the person who phrased the question interpreted the answer.
The information in this tweet is entirely useless in my opinion, and I think people should hold off on making any judgments or even discuss the topic until information is shared publicly through a dev.