I don't think people should panic. It seems incredible to believe that they aren't going to be making more FEs. It's not been billed as a limited edition thing.
What's more believable is that there are like a billion bots and scrapers out there crawling those pages, and as a consequence making API calls, so the API is just dead 24/7. Other products on the store need the API to return legit stock info, etc, so they are inclined to make sure it's working.
As of right now it doesn't matter if all these bots keep scraping those pages because no API calls are being made so nothing on those pages will ever change. It does mean it's broken all of those bots, and stuff like NowInStock, etc.
Panic first, always!