I agree. The Demos, Warner, Booker, and Harris have changed their playbook from calling for reparations to asking for Congress to “investigate” the potential of reparations.
This is their typical ploy, so that they will earnestly argue that they are not for reparations, but for a study to investigate reparations during any Presidential debate.
Someone has probably poll-tested their initial approach and realized that granting reparations up-front is a non-starter with “independent voters”
They don’t want a once and for all final reparation. They want to craft it so they can keep coming back to the trough.