[2022] Farming without completing the objective now no longer works

It looks like with the most recent StW update, you now no longer keep anything you find or farm in a mission unless you complete the objective.

This is a big, big change to how StW worked before - before you could load into a mission on private, farm for a while, and quit with what you had gathered. This was excellent because it made sure that people were not farming in public missions to the detriment of the actual mission (or at any rate, not as many as I suspect we'll now start seeing). Public farmers often don't bother voting to start the defence, resulting in long waits to finish a mission.

Farming in private was great - it let me make sure my mats were always topped up so I did *not* have to worry about that in public missions, I could just get on with the objective.

4 people have tested this and reported back via discord that they have not kept any mats or weapons they found in private farming missions, both in ventures and in main game.

This was not mentioned in the HBSR for 21.30.

Can someone at Epic confirm if this is an intentional change or not?

If it was an intentional change, what was the thinking behind it?

If it's a bug, please PLEASE can you fix it ASAP?

PS - I'm also seeing people commenting that they have used a repair bench to repair a weapon in a ventures mission where they then COMPLETED the objective, and in the next mission the weapon's durability was back down to low again.