Er, so she's saying that features from Paint are in Paint 3D, and that Paint will be available as an optional free app. Wasn't that the plan from the beginnng ? I don't see any reversal, they just commented "wow you guys sure like Paint a lot !"
If i understand correctly they are going to remove it and at the same time make it available through their crap store?
If true, i ask myself why?
I already have it and use it when i use it and i do not want to have any association with their store. MS sucks big sometimes.
MS Paint is very lightweight and it takes practically no storage space. It should be part of Windows perpetually. Like, there is zero reason to remove it. Even moving it to the windows store is a bad decision...
More importantly they're replacing it with Paint 3D as the default image editor, which is also lightweight and can do the cropping/resizing stuff. Original Paint becomes legacy stuff that is optional but still there for those who want it.
One thing I miss in the new Paint is the live display of pixel coordinates of the cursor. The UI I'm sure I'll get used to (it's actually better for stylus or touch usage, but I'm still too used to the old one)