I think that what’s more important than rethinking and ultimately reversing this decision is to explore the conditions that made this idea internally palatable in the first place. Perhaps features need to be tested against a concrete set of principles. Otherwise DDG may just slowly corrupt even if nobody actually meant for it to.
You're right. For an at least somewhat effortful, complicating feature like that to have made it out to release, it leaves the emergent sensibility of the organization in doubt.