As someone who runs a lot of PFS the change to remove stat blocks is a complete retrograde step. Making it more difficult to run PFS scenarios makes no sense. Making it harder for newer GMs to run games is rubbish. Claiming it is to save space on products which are only ever produced in PDF smacks of being an outright fabrication.
The issue is one of time spent editing stat blocks and trying to ensure formats are correct, as it's been explained to me.
Yea, just push all this work to the GMs so we have to do the work. Its a great solution.