Yes, that’s the weird thing, they could have specified this in the proclamation that it only applies for next years lottery starting March next year, or uscis could have changed the fees to charge the money for new petitions, which happens next year.

They did neither.

It's extremely typical of this administration to move fast and do very sloppy work, with very little consideration of the consequences of their actions. There are many examples. DOGE repeatedly fired and then had to scramble to re-hire people either because they didn't realize that they were firing people who did critical jobs (security for transporting nuclear materials for instance) or because they just blatantly broke the law and the courts issued injunctions.