Of course, now there are people who didn't use profiles losing their minds because Netflix had said profiles prevented them from doing other unspecified awesome things and now us profile nuts are ruining it for everyone else.

Meh. How can you be upset that a feature you don't use isn't going away? Basically, because Netflix set it up to be a war between those who do, and those who do not. Now they have to sort it out. I have a feeling the backlash on the flip-flop won't be as strong as the original fight was, but you never know. There are some people legitimately upset about profiles sticking around. Though whether they are, "I'll be dropping my account on the date you don't turn off profiles" upset like the people who were writing in to say, "I'll be dropping my account on the date you turn off profiles" remains to be seen. If so, this could turn into an interesting series of "we are," "no we aren't," "we are," "no we aren't."

All that because they couldn't just come out and tell the truth when they said they wanted to get rid of them, instead feeding a bullshit reason which creates false tensions.

Thank you big corporation public relations. You're awesome.