They stated the functionality was rough on servers and asked people to use it sparingly and not abuse it in addons. So of course a troll goes ahead and creates an addon that extensively uses it for whatever selfish purpose imaginable. Naturally the servers start to become bricked and subsequently the functionality is removed.
This is why we can't have nice things and everything has limits on it. Because of the tiny minority that's got nothing between their ears and are deadset on proving that fact to others.