It's about time! In addition to my "it's annoying and simply not scalable" comment, the bug discussion brings up some additional compelling points:
1. It included a click-wrap agreement in violation of the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
2. Fishing for inappropriate citations should not be encouraged, as it compromises the integrity of scholarship.
> Programs whose authors encourage the user to make donations are fine for the main distribution, provided that the authors do not claim that not donating is immoral, unethical, illegal or something similar; in such a case they must go in non-free.
BTW, the nagware code has been removed in Debian unstable:
https://bugs.debian.org/905674