There's been a ton of communication with them. They aren't unaware. And I don't know how often, but I know Andrew LeBovidge for one has read some of my posts in the past.
Dean iocapelli was bragging at the convention about how natca got this implemented. It's in one of the videos.
Side note, I was talking to one of my old ATMs the other day and this topic came up, and he mentioned he's noticing a lot of animosity towards LeBovidge.