Hi,
Yes, we had the remote backup feature that made backups using completely different from the standard backup method - scripting. Despite warnings that it is in unsupported permanent Beta, people have used it and too many of them got into the situation when they couldn’t reliably restore it when they needed. We have invested endless hours trying to improve the process and support such customers, but it was still very unreliable. This is not the right way to do the backups and we do not want it in our product any longer. If you prefer v10 - we have no questions asked refund policy. We will happily return your money and you can continue using v10.
As far as the weblog - we are bringing it back - see the discussion here: Weblog Availability