From IRC:
What I'm asking is, if the goal is to make the screens bad so that
developers want to fix them, wouldn't leaving them in grid mode when the
rest of the UI is absolute also accomplish this pressure?
Why is "very bad" not good enough to accomplish your goal, but "gone"
is? I would think if you can't pressure them in with something you feel
is so terrible (and many of them openly feel so too) simply removing the
screen isn't going to accomplish anything but remove the ability of
those who are comfortable with grid mode from using the screen, while
continuing to see it not get fixed.