Yes, but their initial plan was the Bazaar, not the MG. The MG is a significant step up from an RNG car boot sale.
You’re assuming that. Would you also say that currency dropping itemised in PoE was because they’d always planned the currency AH that they delivered in 3.25? 
No, they didn’t say “no trading”, they just said that they’d heard the feedback on the Bazaar & were scrapping that implementation of trade & going back to the drawing board. There’s a difference.