Are you fucking kidding me? You reintroduce broken behaviour that possibly has devastating security consequences and and make it the default?! Yeah I agree the "usual" X server locking approach is not the best way to do it – but to knowingly smash the security of people's computers on a grand scale... that's priceless.
(My locking solution is env USER=feh vlock -a -n, again.)
Update: Why it happened