Because the default is that poisoned weapons wound units without the Vehicle or Titanic keywords on a 4+.
The "instead" is acting on how poison weapons behave for non-vehicles/titanics.
Basically, regular poisoned weapons say something like "This weapon wounds units without the Vehicle or Titanic keywords on a 4+. It wounds Vehicles and Titanic keyword units on a 6+"
The Shaimeshi Blade and Agonisers are just like regular poisoned weapons, but "instead" of wounding infantry on a 4+, they wound on a 2+.
They way they have worded it is, in fact, grammatically correct (while my own post is a grammatical mess!)