Yes, you're right. I can't disagree with any of that. Yet something had to be done on the short term to get people back where they were.
Lots of angry people tend to make you do whatever is fast.
I wonder if an upgrade will have the effect of choosing between being able to access old passwords or keeping new passwords?
I'm still left wondering why the delete old posts function from the admin panel didn't work. This all came about because the server host was unhappy about the size of my database.
Am I reading your karma right? A minus 4 billion or so?