User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: March 7, 2016/@comment-5558012-20160307231322/@comment-126761-20160308005234

True - this change doesn't take away the option of being only a bureaucrat. That's not an expected situation, but it's still viable. The main difference is now it won't have a pretty random selection of admin rights to go with it.

Edit: I've edited the update note again - you're right, the second sentence somewhat conflated rights and groups.