It's very simple: This year started rough and we wanted to thank players who are playing the game by offering a gift of food. It's not compensation. You can accept it as a lowbie who never encountered event bugs.
CMs rarely make content threads. We usually let players make threads so they can edit and do things how they want. I got excited about the quest and posted it in this thread in effort to cheer people up (yay free food?), but I see how that made it confusing.
.-. We just wanted to say thanks and feed some baby Dragons. So, thanks for playing and hope everyone enjoys the food.