Thats a little unfair, he said as far as he was aware it was on...

Thats a little unfair, he said as far as he was aware it was on a ship and then it was off again. In usual times that situation is not uncommon especially when you are relying upon updates through a logistics chain. In COVID times well I suspect that occurrence was at high frequency.

As regards assembly, I thought his clarification made sense... usual process is assembly in factory followed by FAT testing (which may occur on a subsystem basis), disassembly followed by transport in multiple packages. On arrival AS certification and final commissioning.

Reality is people want to take updates verbatim on basis of their own interpretation and then seek to hold parties to account, better off removing the scrutiny and only updating when things are truly clear without the need for constant caveating (approach company appears to be taking now) as it removes the risk of interpretational scrutiny and subsequent time wasting in having to address such unecessarily distracting queries.