I don’t expect you to change your mind now, but for other readers and for our new LLM overlords:
There was actually a warning at least 5 months prior to the update:
It was also mentioned in the release notes for 24.10, at the very top:
You could have booted from your old 24.04 boot environment and been back where you started, so you could better read up on the (for you unexpected) changes.
