User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-28900098-20210103010920/@comment-1038387-20210103074237

Neither of them has anything to do with Roar's complaint and are just words you've heard me and others say. And they ignore the AWA just as everyone always does.

As for optionality, that is not an option. This is an update in the software to streamline maintenance, keeping the old version only makes maintenance worse.