This entire smoking mountain of bullshit is what happens when people ride roughshod over basic principles to "get something done" that they think ought to be done. Sometimes you can argue its necessary- there is a case for doing that with something really important, but with rollback?
I think the two or three admins who got this trainwreck rolling ought to be ashamed at what they have wrought, because it was entirely predictable. The dev who flicked this on should flick it back off until the controversy is resolved, and if that dev doesn't want to then he or she should be told to do it anyway. Its just pointless, and there is no reason to have it if it is going to cause such a big damn to-do.
Nathan