This is why we should stop reading anything creators say outside of their actual works.
Yeah, but is that the fault of the fans or the creators?
I mean, sure, every creator wants to be able to defend himself and his work, but when you're being paid money to write characters that have been around longer than most of the people reading them have been alive, then there should be a certain professional decorum. There's no reason they shouldn't be able to say "You know what, this could piss people off. If I think they're being children, maybe I should act like an adult, instead of the bossy bigger kid."
We may look at interviews with creators that occurred in years past of being rather bland, but I think that was because the creators were exercising some tact. The advent of the internet and a new crop of creators thinking (and taking lessons from some of the old crop) that tact is neither necessary nor wanted has helped to build the current atmosphere where it's not creators working for fans and fans supporting creators, but rather creators versus fans in a bitter fight over what the characters are supposed to be.
The fans' natural reaction is to want to know more. It's why we read the stories in the first place. Reading an interview isn't a LOT different from reading the comic or book or whatnot in the first place. And it's the creator's desire to defend and explain himself if fan reaction hasn't been positive. But they can do that without being dicks about it, they're just choosing not to.
When the answers moved from "Well, some fans were upset, but my reasoning was-" to "Heh, there's a lot of whiners out there on that cesspit that is the internet, but they're just basement-dwelling losers", that's when the creators assumed responsibility for the fans' ALLCAPS.