CHOP to SOP method removed in new version. Use Shuffle?

After v27550 in the CHOP to SOP (and SOP to CHOP), their method has been removed so I cannot choose animated which was very handy. It seems that I can replace the functionality with a Shuffle CHOP using ‘swap channels and samples’. But wondering if ‘method’ par will return to them? And is using Shuffle CHOP the replacement?
Thanks, Graham