Agreed, it sucks that they are getting rid of so many features, even ones that do not cost them anything, for example, they actually paid money to cripple the DVR and get rid of the verizon media manager. the software and service was 100% local, meaning it cost them nothing to leave implemented, if they no longer wanted to support it, they could have stopped updating it, but it would still work.
The personal web space was one of the reasons why I signed up DSL over the faster cable service at the time (over 10 years ago).