No, they havent 'lost' it, they've chosen to not upgrade to a subsequent version that comes with those things. just like pretty much everybody else who drops off an upgrade path.
Now, given that its been made very clear that DS's position was untenable, and that this was part of the process of allowing development of these plugins to continue at all, just remind me what position those same people would be in if this hadnt gone through, and he'd found it impossible to continue, and whether that would resemble 'no version 2 ever and no option of support at all'