It did and to my knowledge still does.
To be honest I have not played any rogue build in a looong time, so it might got changed without me noticing.
I still remember discussions from back then, when it was introduced to the game and a lot of people were confused about it.
You yourself did say that multiple times as well.
Continuing the discussion from What does Critical vulnerability do?:
Did you have some other information between back then and now?