The worst part for me is the removal of the config options, why should I as a user not be allowed to decide the limits for myself?
Stop with the allowed thing. That is serf thinking. No one is allowing you or not allowing you to do anything. There is the fable of an elephant held with a tiny rope. When the elephant was small it couldn't break the rope and then it was conditioned for its whole life to believe the rope held it. The option in the software is a rope, you think that the choices that it offers you are your constraints. They are not.
Most people are unable to do this, so the point is moot. The developers are disallowing an existing option by removing it. Whether you accept this or not for ideological reasons, that is the practical reality of the current landscape. What the developers do, it dictates what will happen for de facto most users.