Amazon's New Variation Killing Robot

Is there some new type of Amazon variation killer robot lurking around? For the last 2 years entire variations are just randomly deleted, large chunks of them removed or other bizarre disrupting issues caused by administrative errors related to variations.

I’m just trying to understand the point of this bizarre exercise and experiment. Last month I had a variation, my number one seller, randomly deleted. It’s been a variation on Amazon for 6 years. It has 10,000 combined reviews. The complete variation still exists in Amazon Canada as well. A month later I still can’t get this fixed with invoices, LOA, pictures of the product, etc.

After randomly deleting the variation for no reason, no complaint, nothing — just boredom, they act like they have no history on Amazon.com to prove this is a legitimate variation. Even though this is their website. Every product is the same model, but just a different color.

They are frankly more and more annoying to deal with. They claim adding the products back on the page is an “IP violation.” So, after deleting the variation for no reason (which I guess is NOT an IP violation to delete the variation without request from the brand — only to create) they feel the best approach is to have all the colors of the same model as standalone pages instead of combined to share 10,000+ reviews to truly ruin the shopping experience and cease my distribution to the customer.

How could it possibly be for the best sake of the brand’s IP to delete an entire listing highly demanded by customers and selling significant quantity monthly during certain periods of the season, with 10,000 combined reviews and 6 years on Amazon.com?