Ok, TLDR, a bug was found in inscriptions-land around inscriptions 420,285 and around 1200 inscriptions did get added. Soooo, they are trying to figure out what to do to squeeze them in, changing other people's inscriptions numbers, when some people had 'significant numbers' or whatever.
The humorous part is that I find these people culturally different than reading through the Bitcoin devs maiking list to see them dealing with a bug.
For example:
