Although the 'article' sounds like it's designed to sell magazines more than anything else. No links to any of those forums where the users are supposedly up in arms, for example.

That's because the JPI-hosted forums in which the users complained about this change were censored. At first, topics that were attempting to discuss the issue were removed, then eventually the entire message board was shut down.

I read those topics before they were censored. Trust me: the users were definitely up in arms.