In hindsight I have to admit that the removal makes sense. Being a
professional software developer it should have been evident to me right
away.

The reason is logical. Since usability testing revealed that the feature
confuses users it simply has to go. Just "unsetting" it as a default
option wouldn't work either because software that is released has to be
maintained.

People would still file bugs against that functionality. You can't just
say "We leave that feature there but we don't support it with bug
fixes".

Since the first ten minutes of use are a critical phase for an user it
makes sense to remove it if it confuses them. We should probably invest
our time and energy in implementing that feature in a parallel version
of Unity. People that really want that feature would install the
modified Unity version from a PPA.

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  Dodge windows is down but what about making the launcher autohide only
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