I'm not sure I completely agree with this. I agree it's not a bug, but I doubt that letting you select a stance would break anything...it's just opening up an option to the user that's likely already there underneath.
Not stating this as fact, mind you, but from things I've been told by various developers I don't know that it fits quite the way you mention in this case. I also allow for the fact I could be completely wrong too
...lol.
In any case, I guess in the end it doesn't really matter, as the point likely remains the same. A patch isn't likely for a problem such as that. We'll see, of course, but it doesn't look good.
I don't know if it's "game killing" for me on what will be a 20$ purchase in my case (if I do purchase), but it's pretty disappointing. Oh well.