It was obviously performative at the time. A lot of bitching and moaning but in the end, it was a nothingburger change that distros could ignore as they do every other field on the user profile in systemD. But they had to make a "distro" to show how serious they were, then ignore it completely.

I said at the time if it were maintained in 90 days I'd eat a bug. Apparently I was off by about 75 days.