manufacturing mystery

The question that has not let my mind rest this afternoon: Why, oh why, are there eight Sixlets to a pack?

I desperately needed to know, so I googled it. Only one website addresses this question, and their answer: "...it's rumored that Sixlets are so-named because they used to be sold in packets of 6." (that's a paraphrase, actually, not a quote, but I put it in quotes cause it looks better that way in my sentence.)

So my next question: why the heck would any company completely re-vamp its packaging scheme for a popular, historic candy, so that the name no longer matches the product? Is it some grand Republican conspiracy to finally rid the country of its lower class (those forced by financial restrictions to buy candy labeled "chocolate-flavored") by driving them completely insane? Factory workers, their minds gone wild with the illogic of it all, pulling their hair out in squalid breakrooms, eyes rolling, shouting "SIX? EIGHT? SIX? EIGHT?" in an agony of bewilderment, all their trust in the inherent order of the universe lost forever....

I think next time I'll buy a Snickers.