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Whoever was responsible for that change, most likely was given some requirement to make the UI, bluntly obvious. Never mind how many extra steps it involved.
I do agree that nested drop downs are disease that shouldn't be inflected on any UI.
The problem is, they are one of the easiest UI elements that a programmer can create.