Agreed that it’s wasteful, I have a different suspicion of how hard it is. “editing some tiny file” is misleadingly few words to describe BRANCHING the message, so the verbal announcement uses a different script than the written one. Technically, that’s probably not terribly hard. Organizationally, that’s more effort in keeping changes synced, making sure the same semantics happen in both places, and editing/approving changes.
Agreed that it’s wasteful, I have a different suspicion of how hard it is. “editing some tiny file” is misleadingly few words to describe BRANCHING the message, so the verbal announcement uses a different script than the written one. Technically, that’s probably not terribly hard. Organizationally, that’s more effort in keeping changes synced, making sure the same semantics happen in both places, and editing/approving changes.