alt Hacker NewsRollback is a reliable strategy when the rollback process is well understood. If a rollback process is not well known and well experienced, then it is a risk in itself.
I'm not sure of the nature of the rollback process in this case, but leaning on ill-founded assumptions is a bad practice. I do agree that a global rollout is a problem.
Rollback carries with it the contextual understanding of complete atomicity; otherwise it's slightly better than a yeet. It's similar to backups that are untested.