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You're saying there was a major change to the H1B rules, and that Obama then reversed this change, and that there is no reference to this anywhere?

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They were allowed to move out of H1B visa to EAD status (non-visa legal status). The same legal status DACA recipients got from Obama administration. So, technically nothing was changed to the H1B rule.

Broadly speaking, this is allowed now, no? There is a route to an EAD for H1B holders (and various advantages and disadvantages to each).

https://www.murthy.com/2012/10/26/using-the-ead-as-an-option...

80% of the H1B holders today are from India. And they cannot reach that step; because the wait time to reach there (485-EAD) is 70+ years.

mavelikara's comment blow has the references to Bush's changes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13402891

Yeah, I saw that. But the way you initially described them was very inaccurate.

Yeah, if I had said Bush made "the priority date current" so that H1B could file 485-EAD; I don't think anyone would understand what that mean.

So, I tried to keep it simple by mentioning "job mobility".

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