iPhone 5 jailbreak: were iOS 6.1.3, 6.1.4 released to screw with us?

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iPhone 5 jailbreakers are left looking at the list of improvements and changes in the iOS 6.1.3 and iOS 6.1.4 software updates and wondering if Apple released the updates just to screw with their jailbreak efforts. The first update referred vaguely to Apple Maps changes for users in Japan, which in addition to being oblique, didn’t make sense within the context of Maps updates being made on the server side anyway. The second update referred to a change in the iPhone 5 speakerphone operation, and to this day no one who has installed it has been able to identify what that change is.
The most significant effect of both the 6.1.3 and 6.1.4 updates is that they’ve derailed any progress which may have been secretly made by jailbreak teams working to take down the two updates. Those teams had stated they weren’t working on the former for iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S, but the feeling within the jailbreak community was that they were simply doing so under cover of darkness so Apple wouldn’t be able to foil their efforts. Since the release of the latter, no iPhone 5 jailbreak team has made so much as a peep about its revised plans.
Sure, there may have been minor bug fixes in both the iOS 6.1.3 and the iOS 6.1.4 updates. But one has to wonder if Apple’s primary motivation may have been to scrub out any iPhone 5 jailbreak progress made up to that point.