Bump for reconsideration

Yes, let's get an official ruling here!
The issue has come up and players have been using it against non-adjacents.

Found this from digging design threads . . .
Swinefeld- "After considering the glossary/FAQ, it's not a loophole. CF would not apply vs non-adjacent targets.
The card text was not written with non-melee in mind, but the intent is definitely adjacent targets.

Yes, allies counting for the bonus is clarified in the FAQ, but I do think the glossary probably needs "adjacent" in it if pure shooters are going to have it. (I think the quirk was overlooked with Kanan since he has Lightsaber)
It was only ever on Shaak Ti (melee) during the WotC days."

a good question!
some say that Crowd Fighting is a conditional modified by the Melee 'on card', such as by Melee Reach 2 or SA's & CE's that alter melee distance.
others say, Crowd fighting is strictly the default unmodified adjacent only.

Remember, the wording on the Stat Card trumps the Rulebook in terms of precedence.
whichever approach, consistency is the aim hehe.

consider the hypothetical -
a character has a lightwhip or whatever on the model, and "Melee Reach 2",
therefore, its "adjacent" range is ostensibly the melee reach 2 template, for the purposes of crowd fighting.

to consider another hypothetical:
If a non-melee character had Crowd Fighting, what range is crowd fighting applied to then?
only adjacent, and since it does not specify something explicitly like Melee Reach 2, then that's only 1 square?
or, as it's non-melee, would Crowd Fighting on a non-melee piece extend "adjacent" to mean, anything that the model can see and target in LoS?

and, one last hypothetical,
to do with the custom SA - Attack X, make 1 cumulative additional attack per adjacent character (enemies and allies alike).
If I attack an enemy, and defeat them... what happens to things like Attack X and Crowd Fighting?
is it a 'at any time floatingpoint variable" - If I defeat a character, do I lose the extra attack/s I would have gotten from Attack X, and the bonus from Crowd Fighting?
or, is it determined at a time before the attacks are made?
this does have counter-intuitive implications for targetting utility - attack the pieces earlier that are less likely to die first, and the ones that would die from the attack, last. sorta like Strafe Attack.

That's why I wanted an official ruling. It would imply such, but for the fact that Kanan is a pure shooter and it doesn't actually say adjacent target.