[2021] The "Twilight Hunt" event is not designed to give you free perm camo

Yep! It's a bug that will be fixed soon. Any affected player will be credited any credits that were spent on the repair costs.

I've already relayed the text oversight. The Mission screen in-game reached by hitting "Tab" is the only thing I've seen so far that states Battle Points can be spent in the armory. Easy to see why as that screen is peripheral at best.
The decision was made to no longer require battle points to unlock modules. We all just GET the modules so you can configure your Twilight bote immediately how you want it configured. That's confusing, to be sure, as to why Battle Points even exist then if they're not part of the armory.
They still exist as a parallel earning potential to BXP. So, to complete the two missions that earn Twilight Tokens this week, you can do so by obtaining Battle Points in Twilight Battles AND base XP in the other game modes listed. They all count towards the Twilight Tokens.
In this iteration Battle Points are simply a mode-specific tracker for your progress in Twilight.

Careful... personal attacks on me are still personal attacks. I'm not trying to spin anything, just to help make sense of it.
If I got the process wrong of how BP were used last YEAR, then I apologize. I'm WG, yes, but I'm still a player just like you. I played this event last year and thought it was BP that unlocked the modules. It sounds like I got that wrong.
The point remains that BP currently are a mode-specific metric for completing the missions that award free Twilight Tokens. I agree that it's confusing, but it's hardly predatory in the way you're suggesting.