Yes, it all seems pretty desperate, adding yet another chapter to the long and widely-read "Adobe Manual on How to Get Rid of Customers".
It's not clear to me yet if the breaking of ScriptUI is deliberate or accidental. If the latter, perhaps it will get repaired.
If I have understood correctly what ScriptUI does, it seems not to explain the problems I have been having, where in a simple find-and-replace script some strings are replaced and others ignored.
AB