As I said, they aren’t Changing anything. This is not news. They have said this for years. The media acts as if they are Changing their stance to show how the Churches change doctrine, crumbling before Modernity, so as to help he image of a decaying and irrelevant Christendom which never kept the same beliefs.
Truth is generally ignored.
Frankly, I was not aware the Orthodox had officially caved on this before posting this thread. I'm shocked and gravely disappointed.