welp... the amount of context and in-between messages that are missing (edited out) is large, I would appreciate it if things that I say were not presented in an easily misconstrued manner such as this.
In response to the claim in the post title: I wouldn't be able to honestly say that anything in the game is permanent, because it would not be prudent to assume that something in a live service game (like Fortnite) is permanent. And it's something that due to our holiday break would not even be able to be changed until like January sometime at the earliest, and even then I imagine the team would want to evaluate the impact other changes (as mentioned in the design chat) have on the game first.