Now, I'm going to say this very tentatively, given that we still don't know what the events are going to be, but could this be an update no one moans about?
Being in software development though part of me is worried there will be NO World Event. If they imbedded the RBE logical switch in the wrong place, it might not be possible to turn it off AND have a World Event. Let's hope that is NOT the case because MrKipling43 would easily lose his bet when all the WE vs NO-RBE threads opened up.
The fact that turning off RBE so quickly at the request of super_fla suggest to me that they have coded it in a way that all manor of configurations are easily done at the flick of a (logic) switch! 
This sure is great, but I know for a fact there are plenty or nice drivers out there who's only chance to hang out with the faster guys was the RBE. They had no malicious intent, just liked to be able to race with names that they knew from the forums.
Now, unfortunately, those drivers will drop farther back, into the realm of the punters. At least before they were able to share their hatred of punters with the big names.
I think that overall it is still an improvement. Those same drivers are those who are trying so hard to improve their times, and improve their performance. Seeing their improvements rewarded is easier in a non-RBE environment, so I think that in the long run this will be to their advantage.
And grim, the way you worded the first post makes me worried. What's the bad news?
That would be some poor program design if that was the case! PD are better than that... hell, even an amateur programmer like me could get around that
Heres to more good racing.
