User blog comment:Jenburton/An Update on Message Wall/@comment-3432330-20111001183619/@comment-10532749-20111005215530

The reason why having it optional is not optimal is that having two features with the same purpose is confusing for new users.

We are working hard on making Wall *better* version of Talk pages - so whenever we find a use that is better suited to classic Talk pages we try to improve Wall in a way that it becomes better for this task.