For folks interested this issue on GitHub seems to have the latest comments.
> I'm afraid that's not going to happen. It was a mistake to ship with all plugins built by default. This will be painful for a year as users annoyingly do not read the NEWS files they should be reading but there's little that can be done about that.
> It is our responsibility to our users to provide them the most secure option possible as the default. All of these features are superfluous and do not really belong in a local password database manager, these developments are all utterly misguided.
> Users who need this crap can install the crappy version but obviously this increases the risk of drive-by contributor attacks.
I deal with enough packages in my life that do massively breaking changes in point releases though, to be honest. This is reminding me of the good days that `apt upgrade` would uninstall the X-Server because nvidia fucked up their stuff.
Debian is kinda one of the places I expected to be better, and usually it does. (EDIT - And I guess the fact that this is causing a ruckus in testing is an indication of that. lets see how it develops.)
Whether it happened in a point or major release of Keepassxc is irrelevant, because ignorant users who upgrade their sid/testing installations blindly as if it was stable-security would have hit it eventually.