To be fair, unless you noticed the game autoupdate, you wouldn't even know there are patch notes to read. You'd start the game and wonder why the Resolve bar is gone.
Even if you manually downloaded the newer version, you wouldn't necessarily look up the patch notes and, because the Resolve bar going away is a major change that most people wouldn't expect to be intentional, might very well assume that the update has broken things.
I suppose, for people interested enough in the game to hang around the forums, it's hard to imagine not being aware of patch notes.