Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24739709-20151026190758/@comment-126761-20151106185739

We had hoped to give somewhat more notice, but unfortunately some technical issues caused difficulties with that.

However, this was not something we that could be delayed forever - as a real security concern, it had to be dealt with sooner rather than later. There was reasonable cause to disable it much more quickly than this, but we felt that making sure the JS review process was widely available first would allow more a much more reasonable transition.