the relevant wiki articles, the correct way of explaining maximum changes in the difficulty is that the difficulty can be no less than 25% of the previous difficulty, not that it can change downwards by no more than 25%.
The difference is a single word but it makes a big difference.
I agree, it does seem like it has been poorly explained judging by the number of people who talked about it in the last adjustment, since this is a new event to most people including myself the >25% drop was very famous, I saw many folks talk about how were are going to pass the maximum change allowed, which does prove your point that most articles falsely (and hopefully not intentionally) explain it as a max drop as if it's 25%, I think it would be a lot better if they get rid of the 25% or 1/4 wording and just stick to 75% and %300 because
1- most people prefer to work with multiplication than division
2- most people care about the drop rather than the difficulty/target figure itself.
I suppose the fellow miners would prefer to hear they are getting say 50% more rewards than say the difficulty is going to drop to 7T, the latter is somehow very difficult to reflect on your mining earnings.
Well would you have thought the diff would be 14.4 and dropping to 12 and change.😊