I think this is a very very good / exemplary reaction.
Surely they already had the legal manpower when the youtube-dl removal started making waves. The fact that they did nothing for over three weeks and are publishing this blog post right after the issue was fixed by someone else (EFF) makes it hard to believe their "changes".
They probably published this off the back of a signed off proposal and may start implementing off the back of it early next year.
I'm not sure why this is so unrelatable to you but for me, daily business is, that things just take 1-3 weeks.
Legal manpower still means, that people interrupt their current tasks, which they properly have plenty of, to reprioritize something, others might even not care about at all or never heard of.
I stay with my statement and i have enough live experience, that i don't expect a 3 minute solution and answer from github.com
Instead they found a million dollars (!!!), wrote a blog post with explicit commitments, but then waited on somebody else to step up. It just doesn't add up.
