I regard that as a big, fat warning shot to UBIsoft. Sure, the ones to blame may or may not be multiple parties, but UBI just shouldn't mess with developer's agendas (Epilepsy filter, Steam and such).
I just happen to hate those 'publishing' companies... they have done so much damage to developer studios (thinking of EA, too) it's not even funny. It should be more like in book publishing... aside from designing the title and caring about ortographic errors, publishers shouldn't mess around (Yea, I know, from time to time, you hear about 'black sheep' there, too).
Unfortunately, the developer team will also be drawn into this to a certain extent
Well, let's just hope for the best, that Maddox Games will 'patch' things up and more positive reviews start coming in - so that we don't have to worry that much about the future of the Il-2 line.