A truly blood-boiling update rolled out in the name of bug-fixes and improvements to the animation system which has in turn broken animations on a large number of production games.
Phase 3 - TBD
This phase is the removal of the legacy code, at which point all production games will be running on the latest version of the animation engine with all of the improvements and fixes mentioned below.
Please note that there is currently no set date to enable Phase 3 of this release and we will provide the community with ample notice before it happens.
No ample notice, no clear solution to many problems previously mentioned in this thread, and zero communication.
As a developer I am more than willing to make changes to my code to accommodate improvements on Roblox’s end, and have done so many times in the past, but this was done haphazardly without due care or regard, or proper solutions recommended for given problems.
A solid start would be providing the Workspace property again, and re-evaluating the situation, and then providing developers with better long term migration strategies.