Yes, exactly. This should be a top-level comment. The uninformed delirium over intentional and useful browser features moves us in a slow crawl towards a sad husk of what the Web used to be in the name of 'security'.
The web has changed. It has become a vastly more hostile environment. In my view, the appropriate way of acknowledging this change is to prioritize security over features. Whether a feature is useful or not is no longer the primary consideration.
A denial of service doesn't improve security. All you do is get users to mash whatever knobs they can find until it starts working again regardless of the implications, or disable updates so they can keep using the old version that works instead of the new version that doesn't.
You need to fix the things that are broken instead of breaking the things that are working.