Comment 58 for bug 930148

In hindsight I have to admit that the removal makes sense. Being a professional software developer it should have been evident to me right away.

The reason is logical. Since usability testing revealed that the feature confuses users it simply has to go. Just "unsetting" it as a default option wouldn't work either because software that is released has to be maintained.

People would still file bugs against that functionality. You can't just say "We leave that feature there but we don't support it with bug fixes".

Since the first ten minutes of use are a critical phase for an user it makes sense to remove it if it confuses them. We should probably invest our time and energy in implementing that feature in a parallel version of Unity. People that really want that feature would install the modified Unity version from a PPA.