They were very specific on making them 'BUILDER keywords', ie. they only affect list building and have no gameplay effects or rules. After all what keywords a card has are not printed anywhere on the cards. The whole 2.0 philosophy is that you use the app/pdfs to handle points, slots, builder keywords and other restrictions for list building (all of which can be changed for balance reasons), but then in play you just need the cards and the text on them, plus referring back to the rules reference as needed to answer questions.

Plus 'X-Wing'.

If you didn't already, consider getting the Epic Battles expansion. Among everything else it comes with, to help support flying wings of ships it comes with differently coloured ID tokens numbered from 7-24, plus locks. So while the core set gives you 1-6 in White/Black, you then get 7-12 in red, 13-18 in blue and 19-24 in yellow (from memory).

So you're saying it wasn't broke but Asmodee decided to fix it anyway. Sounds like justification to be at least a little worried. It sucks for the FFG employees, that's a definite negative feeling about the whole affair for me. The silver lining for me as a kitchen table player who gets a few games in a month with my sizeable collection is that if nothing good ever comes out for the game again I've still got years of fun left in it. If AMG produces stuff I want that's just gravy.