I disagree. It isn't a bug because it was explicitly designed to behave this way.
The solution won't be to fix a defect, but to change the design, which is completely flawed. They should have pushed revocations from the beginning rather than requiring every system on the planet to poll a service. What were they thinking? And that does make one wonder whether there weren't other reasons for this behaviour besides "security".
The solution won't be to fix a defect, but to change the design, which is completely flawed. They should have pushed revocations from the beginning rather than requiring every system on the planet to poll a service. What were they thinking? And that does make one wonder whether there weren't other reasons for this behaviour besides "security".