A while later, they did pump the breaks completely by reversing the ToS changes.

This means they would have to change the ToS before trying to implement it again, which means the current result isn't moving the goalposts at all and is not a step forwards to the original solution.

See: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/... and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...