This would have left a fairly significant code change going stale on its own branch in our version control while we waited for code that we don’t manage or have control over to be updated. I have seen some authors aren’t able to fix their scripts until August.
And you answered the other part of the question, however this change has been a long time coming and I did tell people this back in March 2023
TBH as soon as this hit production it was always going to break scripts regardless of how much time people had to fix their scripts before hand.