User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-43776874-20200526214428/@comment-24006128-20200526223056

Well, your account was created a few months after the project was announced, so maybe that's why you didn't see people asking for something we already announced we were working on.

If you don't believe that people wanted this, check the comments on the announcement. Plenty of folks are excited.