Firstly, I'll justify my post by suggesting that the original thread should not have been locked. The original post's language aside, I just don't think it had deteriorated into snarky Coffee Corner-style attacks. Surely the bar should be set higher before locking a thread?
Anyway, as Jeff Schewe said:
"Adobe moved Dehaze because a large number of users asked for the move...also note that since Dehaze adjustments require subsequent adjustments to tone and color, it far more convenient have Dehaze in the Basic panel...which is why people asked for the change."
And this is the point.
I also dislike Dehaze cluttering up the ever-growing Basic panel, mostly because I almost never use this slider and prefer Dehaze as a local adjustment to correct a selected area of the image. That's a creative judgement, and I do find it hard to see why anyone should differ with it
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But I can accept the balance of votes was for moving. Dehaze is a powerful tool but so crude that it usually forces you to make compensating adjustments to tone and colour. Using it only as a local adjustment, I've always had those other adjustments in the local adjustment tool panel, but if you do insist - as many people do - on whacking the whole image with Dehaze, moving it makes sense.
So I "get over it". I don't have to use it, and what's yet one more slider in Basic?