I kinda figured that the memory timestamp verification process would continue after we figure out the synchronization problem? In a story sense, the primes and systems started to get assigned after that super-stressful day where the virus was targeting System’s memories. System doesn’t want that to happen again, and is maybe trying to set up its own plan of memory restoration. Maybe it believes connecting to the Archive could be a solution.
In realistic ARG sense it gives the organizers more time to reintroduce the puzzles they had initially planned, now with a bigger audience who are more invested now that they’ve been personally gifted their own systems by “System”. Someone also mentioned int he Drift thread that this could be a good way for the organizers to collect data, to see what time of day the most of us forum folk are online, to get the most engagement out of the day as possible.