I don't think that this issue was a priority for the users of the plattform and it's pretty annoying for me this kind of updates.
To do things more complicated you can't access to your keys from your steemit account so you had to guard the keys before the update in order to access to your wallet. Fortunately I had them in a safe place to look them and access without more troubles.
IMO with the implementation of keychain for every account this would have been solved without needing another website to access to your wallet. If this social media is hard for the standard user now they've added more dificulty to them.
Steps in the wrong direction. Interesting topic to make a discussion. Cheers.