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It's one thing to remove a feature, but another thing to announce it with communication along the lines of "we will replace it with something later". The third party API changes smelt the same "we are blocking access now but we will work out a subscription model later".
Makes me wonder if they actually have any kind of well thought out strategy or it's just a series of poorly thought out and poorly planned approaches to "make money". It screams of a mismanagement of direction to me.