Just considering its an opensource project and judging from the reactions on the PR people didn't welcome the change; this is quite the wild phrasing in the end of the article:
> that is what this change looks like, but this won't be stopping the haters and conspiracy theorists from making wild accusations
I mean maybe people just didn't even want to have the 'option', without any theories?
I like the approach e.g.: https://agelesslinux.org/ is taking in that regard.