I read 2.0 core rules and the older faq regarding cycles, that faq clearly supports 2.0 core rules. Read the cycles ability and 3.0 rules, and the ability clearly works as a much better and usable ability (the old one was completely useless). If you try and use the older cycles faq that was for 2.0, in a 3.0 game, it doesn’t make sense, and shouldn’t be used, a stronger argument would be made if they did a actual errata or rewrite for the ability in 2.0, but they didn’t, because it already made sense in 2.0, they were just making it more clear for people trying to read something in 2.0 that was clearly not there.