“Audrey Capital-sponsored meta contributor Scott Reilly, who committed the change”

In other words, someone employed directly by a known control freak and “benevolent” dictator has taken away data from everyone else that said dictator can use to his advantage for his other company.

Joost is right and more than that this is an antitrust issue. The WP community needs to start launching legal action against the anticompetitive practices going on.