This is not true. Every change is communicated in the Release notes. But yes, not all reads it. Usually the change also has a description of the change and the reason.
Perhaps we do not want broken nodes which cannot provide a part of the piece for audit, that’s true, but it’s not related (and never been) to the Storage Node Operators. Please do not substitute meaning.
I’m not sure that each change should be supported by a long article explaining it and announced as a news. But I would pass your opinion to the team.