The overwhelming majority of my clients use WordPress for either their main business or ministry websites. Those are users who rarely have any use for post formats.

I had a big issue with the post format UI being enabled by default, especially when upgrading existing sites. I was looking at a whole lot of work before they were yanked.

On the one hand I was going to have to go through all of my client sites and disable the post format UI when I upgraded their sites. The other option would have been explaining over and over again what post formats actually are and how even though things suddenly looked very different in their dashboards, it still worked the same. Mostly.

Either way, it looked to be a long summer for me.

Post formats are great for all the folks using WP as a pure blogging platform. But with all the effort we as a community put into breaking the "WordPress is just for blogging and not a serious CMS" stigma over the years I'm amazed that the core devs were going to make this tumble blog feature enabled by default.