User blog comment:Emptylord/Season 3 - PBE Patch Notes/@comment-5517958-20121116232934/@comment-3974211-20121117045642

It'll be interesting to see how it pans out: but that was clearly the point of it's addition... so remove that feeling of "I can't go back or X will happen, but I need to go back". It costs money to remove that feeling though, and I'm guessing they're counting on most people buying Distortion.