It’s just pure contempt from the devs, but the best part is that they messed it up after the majority of the community asked them not to do this. Arrogance meets incompetence.
If they seriously thought this change was good they could have worked on it for a few weeks behind the scenes and made sure it was properly implemented across the game.
See this. Not sure if it is Ratherdone that forced it through or somebody above him but I think we should all give the team a big round of applause.