Notice though how he doesn't say "Everyone was pretty upset about the name" but rather they just understood the "need" for a name change.
Yeah probably because a bunch of white people wouldn't stop bitching about it so it was just a distraction.
Almost exactly what happened with the proposed changes for GS; a bunch of white people felt things needed to change and a bunch of other white people say they "understood the need for change" even though they never originally gave any of it a second thought.