This is, and has been, common knowledge for well over a decade. In fact, it's never been other than this situation, as far as Marvel is concerned. I have tried for many years here to correct this "print run is tied to amount ordered" misconception, but people still want to believe "welp....71,982 copies ordered through Diamond, that means a 1:100 variant only had 720 copies printed."
It's patently false, but some folks around here just refuse to be corrected on it.
Then, when you DO correct them, you're 1. the bad guy; 2. ignored and then the same damn misinformation is repeated again by the same people somewhere down the line.
Facts are like kryptonite to these people.
Perhaps Jaydog and others like him want to keep pimping this misinformation because they're invested in these books, and don't want to see their "investment" suffer.
They've been corrected over and over and over again, by multiple people, and yet....same old same old. And worse, skewing the discussion with silly, irrelevant hyperbole, like "well, I guess when these WAREHOUSES filled with ASM #667 Dell'otto show up, then I'll be concerned", when no one says anything like that.
It's very taxing.
Did you know they owe me pernts?