To their credit, I got a timely reply from a Senior Associate AD agreeing and conceding they fumbled that communication and apologizing. He indicated it would be fixed beginning next year, and that...

"We’re going to make it very evident what cycle we’re in and we’re going to refer to “reseating years” as “reseating years” and “non-reseating years” as “seat improvement years” and that will be very obvious in all of our materials. "

Hopefully they are also clear fight up front in the letter as you (and I in my complaint) suggested as well. Oh, and he said 2020 WILL BE a reseating year by the way