We are fully aware of the implications and this is not a permanent solution. Our concern is really not with what methods that are “recommended” but with the overall health of server farm and all of our clients. We temporarily chose to do this as the server loads were making sites completely inaccessible., which is much worse than not being able to log in.

However, you will notice that we have already flipped back access as we pushed out new rules again. These rules are working much better than the ones that we had in place, but should we need to block access again, it is an option we may have to use.

Thanks for the feedback and rest assured we are listening.