Re: It's optional
The CAs are more worried about losing business from this change - If you have to keep updating your certs you are more likely to look at an automated solution and if you start to research that you end up moving to letsencrypt.org. The choice of CAs in most large companies is historc - remember all the marketing from Versign in the past and it was aimed at business people not techies. This change will allow the techies to put forward alternatives.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
