HTC U11 starts receiving Android Pie update again, no new bricking reported (yet)

Despite keeping its fans waiting for a painfully long time, HTC somehow still managed to mess up the official Android Pie update for the high-end U11. The 2017-released 5.5-inch smartphone was treated to the long overdue UI makeover in Taiwan less than a month ago, but after reports of bricked devices started piling up, the company was essentially forced to halt the OTA rollout.
Interestingly, the stable system update looks almost identical to the glitchy 3.22.709.2 build, carrying a subtly revised 3.22.709.3 number and tipping the scales at the same old 1.4 gigs or so. The changelog doesn’t specifically mention any bug fixes either, simply listing the generic Android 9.0 Pie name along with vague “system enhancements” and Google+ removal from Blinkfeed. It’s as if the bricking never happened, although it’s not entirely clear if HTC repaired the affected phones somehow or simply replaced them with new ones.