Microsoft did the June layoffs we knew were coming since January and pinned it on "AI cost savings" so that doing so would raise their stock price instead of lower it.
I suspect that cleaning the glue off the textured sheets is a bigger pain in the butt than off the smooth. But I say that as someone who never tried to clean PVA off of PEI.
I just use my textured sheet and remove very carefully - but I tend to use harder TPUs which makes flexing the sheet more effective.
I have heard people say that TPU is the reason they still keep a glue stick handy and the Prusa material matrix says to use it on their smooth PEI sheet. And it suggests a polypropylene sheet is also applicable without glue stick.
Here's why I don't own a bar. Every time I got up to bathe I'd feel compelled to announce with bravado, "The line must be drawn here. This smelly, no stinkier!"
And then I'd march to the shower with conviction... and a tommy gun.
Boimler never got rid of his.