Since there's no such thing as absolute security, all security effort is a balance between an assumed threat and the havoc it could create and costs. So it's always business vs. security. I'm a bit on the fence here and I guess I'd have taken another route but well, if the product was not viable without the plugin... Who knows.
Given that: My remark was directed at the blank statement that it's always easy to switch. It obviously is not in that case, the change was on the agenda [1], so it's a bit tough that this happened in the meantime.
[1] At least according to the official statement. I don't have any reason to believe otherwise.