With the number of devs erroneously requesting verified status thinking it would help the use whispers, hopefully this announcement will encourage those developers to seek a more appropriate means of communication rather than using whispers.
And for those who request it for an increase in message rate limit, it could be time well spent considering how to better design a bot to handle the existing rate limit, as unless you’re on dozens/hundreds of high activity channels the bot shouldn’t need anything more than the default rate limit.