To make something "less trivial" would mean to make it harder or even impossible. To that end it makes sense to remove such a command
I don't see to what end would make him remove such a command.
the command had some good uses, and it was removed because people were bitching probably.
Hopefully it wasn't, and badspot has some plan to make a better command, but even i was using it to make people feel drugged, or slowed down on my server.