The texture changes are not typically something we would target for a pre-weekend hotfix and would normally be targeted for a planned larger bugfix patch (like the one we are working on for next week). We only included them in this hotfix because one of the changes in with those texture changes was required for the Balthas quest failsafe which we really wanted to get out before the weekend.
My point is: The texture changes were in no way part of the decision making as to whether the disruption of a hotfix deployment was necessary.