Again, if they knew they were going to get backlash considering that people despise dealing with Team Adventure and how random the act of winning it is as a human team, and having to deal with Unbeatable difficulty AI, why bother?
I seriously doubt that's the majority reason, and PG just decided to throw people a bone. Which just begs the question of why bother putting cars in the Trial when people are going to complain about dealing with sub-brick human players and cheap, rubber banding AI, to the point that they either just say **** it and avoid the week like I did, or wait until PG just do this and make the work that people did to actually get the car as it was intended to be gained utterly pointless.