You could easily make the case that this is a bug, though.

If the space to transact is very limited, and suddenly the scope of the system is widened forcibly due to an unintended consequence of a recent soft fork, the transactors are kicked out of the limited space.

In fact people who want to use Bitcoin for other use cases than just transact have a large competitive advantage over transactors: https://nitter.net/oomahq/status/1729123347366285792