"Sneak remove" after 6 pages long thread. Sir, come back with some brains, please.
You will just put your opinion higher then the rest of the community and call it a decision made. It doesn't have to be sneaky.
Same thing as old NC, few people in developers don't like it, literally few individuals in the community and majority of community doesn't get to play it despite numbers heavily favoring the feature.
It's simple, if Jovanka, most probably you I can imagine wouldn't put your opinion higher, we would have old NC for sure.
Features like distress can just go away for the same reason someone can't re-implement a good feature what will cost close to zero time as it has already been created long time ago.