It was installed earlier, we just omitted it from the UI with the rest of the bundled plugins from before. Our UI was improved to properly surface everything that exists. (we had a bunch of omissions including Chat which was hidden via CSS)
I have already observed internal dev team velocity increase in the very short time this has been in place. It is leading to a more stable product, something I am very happy about.
No plans to back track here. You need to adjust to the new world.