I just want to re-iterate how absolutely stupid this functionality is. I haven't seen any step back in web forum technology since I've been posting on them so this is a first.

Just to post here I had to scroll, wait, scroll, wait, etc, etc. For a multi-paged thread on a regular site, you'd just scroll and then hit last. I commonly want to scroll up to use the forum tools, but now you have to scroll many, many times to get to the top of a thread to find them. For long threads, finding particular pages is very useful.

This brings 0 benefit with it. Absolutely nothing. It brings a lot of drawbacks. A better change would have been to move each page to a large number of posts.

How about you guys stepping up, admitting that you made a mistake and let people who want this really useless feature opt in to it?