At first I really thought this was going to be another Crysta thread asking for new payment options. Then after I read it I was extremely skeptical and thought you were trolling! But I am completely overjoyed at this news.

Thankfully XI still has some pretty rough characters and they weren't going to take click and buy laying down. I was on the verge of cancelling my XI subscription like a lot of others and there was a 1050+ reply thread giving SE the ultimatum to change billing systems or they were going to shut down their accounts come Sept 1st. Looks like SE listened and caved.

As much rivalry (I guess?) between XI and XIV, we have to thank them because I don't really know if this would have ever gotten changed had there not been such a resistance.