Gutting the functionality that upstream has built into a piece of software and then publishing it under the same name is dubious at best. If they want to go this direction they should publish as a fork under a different name so upstream doesn't get constantly barraged by complaints of users having issues.
This reminds me of the time years ago when the Debian maintainer of Chromium decided to unilaterally disable the ability to install extensions. Thankfully, more pragmatic minded people prevailed and the patch was reverted.
This also reminds me of a time many many many years ago when Debian removed the kernel interface that provided the ability to load binary firmware into network cards and broke networking for me.
This reminds me of the time years ago when the Debian maintainer of Chromium decided to unilaterally disable the ability to install extensions. Thankfully, more pragmatic minded people prevailed and the patch was reverted.
This also reminds me of a time many many many years ago when Debian removed the kernel interface that provided the ability to load binary firmware into network cards and broke networking for me.