OK, it sounds like we have enough of a consensus to remove it for 3.7.0b2.  Unfortunately, 3.7.0b1 is already finished.  We are not going to do an emergency brown bag b2 just for this.  We could add a warning note to the release notice that is about to got out but OTOH the feature isn't very visible and the documentation for it will disappear from the docs web site once the revert is made (and please wait for the imminent announcement of the 3.7 branch to do that).