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It's explained in the article.

I could not understand and hence I asked the question. The thing I understood was that this broke some peoples flow.

I’m not an Emacs user and also failed to understand what went wrong. So they changed a default shortcut or something?

Imagine copying via Ctrl-C and having to hit enter to confirm a dialog "Did you want to copy this text". It's added, unavoidable friction for an action that some people use a lot.

Additionally, some actions on top of the original behavior (that depended on Ctrl-C completing automatically, to keep with the analogy), now are just broken.

While I appreciate the analogy, it's important to note that registers are a fairly advanced feature, not quite as ubiquitous as Ctrl-C. Standard Emacs copy-paste remains unchanged and functions just as expected.

I also don't really use emacs. But by the sounds of it, when you want to use a command that involves a register, you get a mini-popup where you input the register you want.

The downside is that you must push enter after you enter the register you want.

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