The reason for thinking in terms of "reparations for damages incurred" is because there has been some complaint that the 10 FGs -wasn't enough- compensation for what was a minor display bug that was easily worked around and didn't cause any real loss of resources. While I agree that free stuff makes people happy, hell I like free stuff too, I disagree that it wasn't enough in this case.
The "ghost exclamation mark" is a bit more annoying to me, but that's just another display error and I'm only out the few seconds where I click on it to make sure that nothing needs to be claimed. I don't really feel that I need a 5* ticket for that either when it gets fixed.