I really don't understand how they could have thought this was an improvement. It is the epitome of what I'd call "verschlimmbessern" in German, a word squished from "verbessern" (to improve) and "verschlimmern" (to worsen), which makes me notice once again that afaik English lacks a simple word for this phenomenon of supposed 'improvements' that make things worse overall or repair one thing, and only to break three more, which is odd considering how often this happens.