There will no longer be auto-switching for platform specificity when using Ionicons

Ionic Framework
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From: https://github.com/ionic-team/ionicons/blob/0d757ad96aa42847da80853ac1c0c3d43ac6a641/CHANGELOG.md

  • There will no longer be auto-switching for platform specificity when using Ionicons in an Ionic Framework app. If you’d like to switch icon styles based on the platform in Ionic use the md and ios attributes and provide the platform specific icon/variant name.

<ion-icon ios="heart-outline" md="heart-sharp"></ion-icon>

Maybe I’m missing something here, but I can’t understand the reasoning behind this change…
Up until now, Ionic chose the right icon to use, depending on the current platform, while with the new Ionicons, it would be the developer to know what the right icon is?

Isn’t this a drawback…?

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Often the designers want to use the same icon across both platforms. Also some of the icons are converging to the same look. There are some exceptions; like the overflow icon (aka three dots) will conform to the platform still.