Because of new chat update showing past chats, scammers could use the /me command to make sure there chat logs wouldnt show up to them, and steam has a pretty large RPing community and today they got rid of it out of nowhere
What followed was a flame war, and personally, reading this you might not give a stuff, but i do RP every once and awile, and personally, if you think about, its like taking features away, what if badspot where to take away the ability to post BBC tags? It would personally impact alot of people on here.
Though you could say theres alternatives to the /me command "Ex : 2 *s, etc" the /me command was a faster way to do it.