There seems to be more discussion about this than something that is hard to understand. The issues are simple and cross the entire Wordpress Enterprise. I am actually very surprised that so many truly brilliant folks, volunteers at that (paid volunteers still count) haven't seen this as an unreasonable situation for themselves on their own sites or as an issue for those that are paying them and fixed it without this discussion.

If Wordpress can tell me when a plugin needs to be updated or make the view details link go away. It can without even a significant amount of code changes tell me that it is no longer in the directory and perhaps the date it was removed if not the reason it was removed. Why couldn't this be something as simple as Security Vulnerability (in red maybe) without going into significant details.

I absolutely believe that whoever has determined that if it was bad enough to be removed but they can't share with us because of the security implications are just telling me and everyone else how smart and important (and probably good looking) they are and how everyone except for their closest circle is just too stupid, irresponsible, or lazy (and probably fat or old if not both) to make their own decisions. Tell me what is going on. I am capable of making my own risk assessment and acting on it. BTW, that applies across the board (Operating Systems, Browsers, Applications, National Security, etc . . . ) not just to Wordpress Plugins and themes. Way too many folks today are just making themselves far too important or grasping for any kind of influence especially when it isn't justified.