No I'm not talking about the button removal. I'm talking about the fact that the software for the site is already able to be downloaded and run locally. So if you run the software locally, you'd have no such restriction.
So one group suddenly doesn't have the capability, the other has. Admittedly the second group is lesser in numbers but the power-voters (whales and dolphins) even vote from ...cli or bots or have slider bars that ordinary voters don't have. So in effect this voting change would typically alter the behavior of small voters who don't matter much anyway.