Meanwhile a retarded shirtcoiner KyleBenzle in the comments:

'Exactly! They are not going to "waste" their canary if it was a simple request for information. Best guess, this is the beginning of the end for Ethereum and they have been compromised just like Blockstream and BitcoinCore were previously.

It is best to assume that from now on Ethereum is no long a decentralized application but its development is being directed by a governmental agency, again, same at BitcoinCore.'