I don't think they'll drop the '3' (even if they were able to), but staying silent is also not a good option.
Yes I guess the best option would be waiting a while then doing some PR in communicating changes. Those changes could not even be direct changes made in reaction to the drama but just improvements they were doing anyway like finishing an UI that does not look like DOS.
That said I am not sure how hard it would be to look into optionally enabling some realtime combat mode or something. Even if it makes no sense because you can't have fine control maybe its still worth it for for easy combats and to shut up some critics. Would not be the default of course and only to be enabled with some toggle optionally.
