There wasn’t any intent to remove that element. Likely the code for dealing with it is still there but the checkbox was lost when a merge conflict was resolved.
Unfortunately it seems that no one using that capability carried out an evaluation during the Testing Phase of CU197.
The best thing is if you could raise this as a bug report.
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