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Updated Mar 11, 2019
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I am so incredibly disappointed with Microsoft's upcoming 'update' that is removing the ability to turn off modern lists at the tenant level. Can someone please provide me any logical answer as to why this 'helps' any company in any fashion. All this is going to do, in my opinion, is make it harder for IT Admins to keep classic mode enabled when that is necessary. Having a tenant option for classic or modern helps IT Admins whether they want to use classic or modern, it provides the option in 1 spot. Now you are forcing anyone who wants to stay on classic to run powershell commands on every site collection in your tenant. Of course, thanks to your lack of concern for sprawling site collections (with the way O365 groups/teams create new site collections like they are candy), this can be a daunting task.
I truly cannot express my frustration with this decision and would appreciate any comment that can help explain your justification for making this decision. It really seems like it is just an attempt to force modern on tenants by making it even harder to keep classic enabled.... seriously how is this helping anyone, even tenants that want to use modern mode, having the option in 1 spot at the tenant makes that easier.
Please reconsider this very bad decision (from my viewpoint), it hurts no one to keep the tenant wide option, while it hurts everyone to remove the tenant wide option (making it harder to control at tenant level). Truly can not believe this is thought of as a good idea honestly.