User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: September 2, 2015/@comment-13301-20150904094840/@comment-13301-20150905094657

What I say is basically: There was a major security breach caused by bad Wikia practices: login credentials being stolen. To "solve" the situation, Wikia causes major hassle to communities by reducing the ability to admins and even their won users to edit scripts, which does not solve the primary and original problem. I know the severity of the issue that happened, but Wikia seems to think the severity is in other unrelated area!

I think Saftzie pretty much hit the nail here about why Wikia is moving in this direction, rather than addressing the true threat: "security theater"