I’ve posted several times in this thread on the Battle.net forums (I’ll repost these later).
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/16952355725
Since the topic is now highly rated, it’s more than likely that it has been seen by a community manager. And since it has remained mostly constructive, probably being continually read and likely passed on to the dev team for reading as well.
I don’t expect any kind of response on the forum though because I’ve done my part to shoot down any potential reasoning for their removal including sourcing past comments about achievements and the “fresh start” aspect of Seasons.
It might end up getting addressed in a future tavern talk.
