I would normally not link to a tweet, but it’s from the YouTuber who is behind the global campaign that aims to prevent games companies from killing games people paid for:

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

It seems that Ubisoft is either doubling down on deleting this game in order to throw a wrench into preservation efforts and activism (even though it’ll achieve the polar opposite) - or that this was the plan all along and it’s just blindly being carried out, bad optics be damned.