I almost never have to use that feature on my phone. Most sites work very well with a mobile site. Some, however, are just lacking a specific function that I need, and not necessarily even a complicated feature, so it's good to know how to do it.
I'm glad you can make it work this way.
As I said before, though, I don't believe this was a planned change. Probably something that came along with a package upgrade to the server. And since I directly access m.battlemaster.org, I never even noticed the switch. We share the server with some other number of Tom's projects, so we have no direct control over this kind of thing. The dev team literally had nothing to do with this.