Suspicion: +80% of paladin playtesters in their closed group ended up with the broken oath state at that point, from dealing with the fishers and having some of them die due to failed checks and no fault of their own, so they doubled down on the flippant system and just removed the 'problem point'.
But Oaths only come at lvl 3 so you should not have been high enough level to be able to break your oath at this point in the game.
