User blog comment:Ciencia Al Poder/Portable Infoboxes, the first step into Wikia taking control over our content/@comment--20170510200248/@comment-11733175-20170510203840

I think what I'm struggling with the most in all of this is why PI is, or seemingly in this situation, so much of a must. As it has been optional up until this point, for you guys to offer it and a community decline seemed like a reasonable resolution, albeit disappointing for you. If they had been a smaller wiki that had not attracted the attention of staff, I suspect a proactive thread would not have been made and a general opposition to PI would not have resulted in this set of events. Why, therefore, does this apply to a larger wiki?

There are perfectly reasonable arguments for not wanting PI, one of which you mentioned in your post. The desire for flexibility moving forward, past the limitations of PI is not unthinkable. This appears to have been a nuclear option for a problem that should have never existed, and unsurprisingly it's now resulted in the loss of a community member who was, on some level, willing to work through problems as he's stated on the 2 discussions here.

@Ursuul I would not expect staff to share that information based on privacy concerns, irrespective of how they feel about Ciencia personally.