The tendency to just remove features without so much as a word of warning to users seems pretty popular these days. I think it is most commonly seen as part of

The tendency to just remove features without so much as a word of warning to users seems pretty popular these days. I think it is most commonly seen as part of a push to remove complexity from the program. Unfortunately this mentality can also make it seem like creating and maintaining channels that warn users of upcoming changes are unnecessary pieces of process complexity. Of course all that is accomplished by this internal simplifying is offloading that complexity to the user who will then complain and/or seek out a way to do what they want to do on their own. Users searching for undocumented features is probably a good thing and should be encouraged. In the case of developers unwilling to communicate properly, all the users can do is try to fill in the gaps themselves by guessing and speculating on what the developers are up to. This, I don't think is such a good thing, and it's somewhat embarrassing when it happens with a social media company whose main product is a communication tool.