This is a good analogy. Even though there is still a way to configure these settings in 30, it has taken it “off the menu”. A restaurant can cook you something off menu, but there are added frictions relative to what’s just on the menu. The hard line will be when the restaurant no longer stocks the raw ingredients required for substitutions and special requests. Core is planning to continue deprecating certain configurations to the point that the average user is unable to manipulate settings to their liking.
We don’t make cheeseburgers here anymore, but you can still have a cheeseburger. Just go buy the ingredients, set up a kitchen, learn to cook, and make it for yourself. OR, go to another restaurant.
Knots is just a different restaurant.