Was anyone really using this feature? Even the author sounds like he wasn't actively using the feature. He entered some data 6 years ago, and went back today to find it was missing.... He didn't even notice until almost a year after it was removed.
Keeping every feature around, even the unused ones that look like failures, is a bad idea.
Funny thing is, people are lining up to do just that. I think that's a symptom of an industry where following the hype is more important than long term stability.
Agreed, though, as a sibling said, making a habit of dropping a ton of features constantly is annoying.
Especially when there were options before. If I liked an old version of a native application, used to be I could just keep that old version for a long time. Especially if it was isolated in functionality, even the security implications weren't that dangerous.
Now, everything needs everything. And with the web, you can't pin a version to where you like it. :(
Keeping every feature around, even the unused ones that look like failures, is a bad idea.