I don’t know about him, but I thought of this when I voted for this idea:
I am monitoring audit socres and counts, but these are my own scripts and I should be able to quickly change them to use the new API after the update comes out. But for people using sripts written by someone else, those scripts will stop working until the author fixes them.
And there is no way to update those scripts now, because the nw API is not available. Ass soon as it is available the old API will stop working, so there is no transition period.