Personally, I'm not putting too much faith in this. The wording of the original message does not seem structured in such a way that it appears to be from the desk of a department head who would be making such a large announcement with such ramifications.

But then I said the same when some internet video cropped up, with a barely understandable faux-internet reporter who was more pretty than eloquent, talking about how Optimus was going to ride Grimlock. And geez was I wrong there