Here is an article about it: https://brick.is/blog/post/111/lego-reveals-they-came-close-to-cancelling-21337-table-football-set-due-to-problematic-model-scale
Basically, they tried several scales and while playing with the game, but the set just got ruined (broken).
brickman
A man of bricks, a brickman!
Joined
Oct 18, 2022
Last seen
Oct 25, 2022
as it said in the article, they had already announced it, they made the deal with the original designer, so the team couldn't take everything back.