I do understand that at some point you can't keep old UI elements that may rely on a dead or no-longer-used language, or features that are not needed for anything else. If the only thing certain resources are used for are simple UI elements, I could see those resources coming under scrutiny during audit.
Like rkmcswain, it is very confusing to me because of the fact that it's still a simple CUI profile away from being added back in. And, as mentioned, an employee went and entered a controlled document to the KB to describe the process.
I'm just left bewildered, I guess. Possibly they are hoping to trim away some of the peoples preferences to the traditional UI, switch more people over to the new UI, so that their developments/features have a larger user-base impact when they're only developed fully using the newer UI. I know they're not real good about fully developing the command-line usage of some newer tools, in a few cases at least. Possibly they want to stop having such a desire to fully develop command-line-driven content. If at some point the people using the "old fashioned" UI are so few, they can justify marginalizing their concerns/desires.
Oh well. I just use LT now as a minor/occasional tool. Back to NX8 for me.