What exactly do you mean by "design input"? Just get to the code that hides the menu and add a switch to skip it... The menu was there before, remember? The change has been made to make it vanish. Can't be that hard to restore the original behaviour.
This is a political stance, not a design one.
Once you get "permission from above", there should be little in the way of coding to get this back to its sensible "boring old ways".
@Omer Akram:
What exactly do you mean by "design input"? Just get to the code that hides the menu and add a switch to skip it... The menu was there before, remember? The change has been made to make it vanish. Can't be that hard to restore the original behaviour.
This is a political stance, not a design one.
Once you get "permission from above", there should be little in the way of coding to get this back to its sensible "boring old ways".